YSRCP Urges President, PM To Stop Division Of State

Reiterating that a united state will achieve development faster and that it will be weakened if divided, YSR Congress said that the GoM is in confusion as there is resistance from many quarters over the division of the state.

"Andhra Pradesh, which gave 33 MPs and played a key role for UPA to retain the power for the second term, is being split by Congress for political reasons, against the federal spirit. While they are playing power games, our leader Y S Jaganmohan Reddy has been knocking the doors of all national and regional parties, to stall the process in the Parliament", party leader T Sitaram told reporters here on Thursday.

"Congress leaders wanted to cut the state like a cake on Sonia Gandhi's birthday, on December 9, but this will be the last birthday for her while her Party is in power, as public resentment is growing," he said.

"We urge President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh to act against this authoritarian and undemocratic decision of axing the state into 2, without taking the consent of the state assembly and respecting the majority opinion of the people," he added.

He further stated that the GoM "appears to be a confused lot" as it has been changing its methodology of dividing the state from time to time.

Sitaram said that there is still "no clarity" on what basis the state will be divided.

"There is the K Roshaiah Committee's report which gave in detail the consequences arising out of the division, there is the Srikrishna Committee's report which has given its version, but the GoM opted to ignore the available reports and to tread in its own path, harming the interests of the people," he said.

Sitaram called the decision to divide the state as undemocratic and said that it showed the authoritarian attitude of Congress, "against which our leader Y S Jaganmohan Reddy is fighting".

The division is only to weaken the state and to gain some seats, he said adding that a united state will keep the development clock ticking and a divided state will turn it weak. (INN)