A major improvement has occurred throughout the Vindhyas. Andhra Pradesh’s Chief Minister, Nara Chandrababu Naidu, held a gathering on June 6 together with his Telangana counterpart, Anumala Revanth Reddy. The target of this initiative – taken by Naidu himself, the senior of the 2 leaders – was to resolve the decade-old impasse over inter-state points.
The dispute between the 2 states, which arose after the creation of Telangana in 2014, revolves across the sharing of property and liabilities that every needed to settle after the bifurcation. But, little motion was seen over the past decade on a number of contentious tasks recognized within the two schedules of the Andhra Pradesh States Reorganisation Act.
A Political Standoff
The problem, which is partly administrative, is actually a political name. The ticklish drawback for both aspect is coping with any doable backlash for agreeing/conceding to a place on 50 of some 240-plus establishments which might be below competition.
On his half, Naidu maintained that for his Telugu Desam Celebration (TDP), each the Telugu-speaking states had been like his pair of eyes. At an occasion in Hyderabad, he said that whereas the TDP and the Congress had completely different ideologies, they need to work collectively for the profit and pursuits of Telugu-speaking folks.
Andhra Pradesh has seen two governments over the past decade, every headed by a distinct social gathering: the TDP in 2014-2019 and the YSR Congress in 2019-2024. However, the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS, earlier Telangana Rashtra Samiti) led the federal government in Telangana over the past decade. The relations between the TDP and the BRS had been frosty earlier, however within the latter’s second time period, there have been efforts from each side to resolve thorny points. Â
The bottom scenario in both state has modified now. There’s a Congress authorities in Telangana being headed by Revanth Reddy, who till a couple of years again had been with the TDP and was thought-about near Naidu. Political rapport does matter in resolving contentious points.
A Decade-Outdated Impasse
There are 91 establishments in Schedule IX and 142 in Schedule X. Of those, there are round 50 our bodies over which there are variations pertaining to the interpretation of the provisions. Officers from each side have held conferences prior to now about these points.
One of many foremost sticking factors is the division of institutes whose headquarters are in different states. The federal government of Andhra Pradesh had arrange a committee below Sheela Bhide to establish the tasks/establishments for division. However whereas Telangana’s objection was that together with these tasks which weren’t a part of the headquarters went towards the spirit of the Reorganisation Act, Andhra Pradesh was of the view that the suggestions of the committee had been accepted in a rush in order to hasten the method of division.
The Centre in 2017 tried to discover a technique to take care of the standoff, however the two state governments weren’t pleased, and some instances reached the courtroom. General, the Union Dwelling Ministry had instructed that the matter be resolved in three phases: the primary involving establishments over which there was no distinction of opinion, after which taking a look at these institutes over which both aspect differed. However the Andhra Pradesh authorities as a substitute most popular to discover a single-step resolution.
A Glimpse Of Hope
Now, after taking on because the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh for the fourth time – second after the bifurcation – Naidu has nudged Reddy to take steps to finish the method. The assembly final week supplied a glimpse of hope. Either side agreed to kind three panels: first on the official degree, second at a ministerial degree, and the third comprising the chief ministers. Â
If Naidu and Reddy do finally handle to interrupt the deadlock, it can set an instance for different states which might be going through inter-state disputes. The 2 leaders ought to exhibit the political will to succeed in a consensus and take the matter to its logical finish. There are dangers too: if Naidu and Reddy fail to successfully nip apprehensions of being short-changed, this can flip right into a legacy problem which subsequent governments will discover tough to take care of.Â
(Okay.V. Prasad is a senior Delhi-based journalist)
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