TDP Leaders Insist On Section 8 In Hyderabad

The controversy over enforcing Section 8 of the A P Reorganisation Act in Hyderabad is getting stronger with each day with the demands of its implementation and opposition to it both getting more strident.

While the Telangana government is vehemently opposing its implementation in Hyderabad, the TDP is demanding it without further delay.

Today, TDP leaders Gali Muddukrishnama Naidu and Bojjala Gopala Krishna Reddy demanded either immediate implementation of Section 8 or making Hyderabad a Union Territory.

They said that Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu had been demanding enforcement of Section 8 for the last one year.

Gali Muddukrishnama Naidu alleged that Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao was blackmailing the Governor on the issue and provoking the government employees. Why they the TRS not oppose Section 8 at that time of the drafting of the A P Reorganization Act, he asked.

He also stated that Section 8 should be in force for ten years, and that if the Telangana government did not agree to it, then Hyderabad should be made a Union Territory. The Andhra people had the same rights on Hyderabad as the Telangana people because people belonging to Andhra were paying Rs. 7,000 crores to Rs. 8,000 crores in taxes, he contended.

All government buildings had been built during united Andhra Pradesh, and there should be a valuation of these buildings and distribution under the 58:42 ratio, he said.

On the comment of KCR that he would go on a hunger strike against the implementation of Section 8, Gali said that people knew about his "fake hunger strike".

Another TDP leader Bojjala Gopala Krishna Reddy said Section 8 was incorporated in the APRA to infuse confidence among the people of Andhra Pradesh. Opposing the implementation of Section 8 meant that the Telangana government did not want to give security to the people of Andhra Pradesh living in Hyderabad.

He insisted that Section 8 and the ACB case were different issues, and that the Governor should immediately take an initiative to implement Section 8. (NSS)