HYDERABAD, November 17, 2011
Mayawati adds a new angle to Telangana tangle
S. Nagesh Kumar
Proposal to divide UP raises different possibilities over bifurcation
issue in Andhra Pradesh
A new dimension has been added to the Telangana tangle by Uttar
Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's political gamble of trying to divide
her State into four parts as it opens a whole lot of new possibilities
over the burning issue of division of Andhra Pradesh.
Looking at it in a simplistic manner, the Centre may seem to be under
additional pressure to give in to the demands for creation of smaller
States, which number over a dozen. It would also appear that if the
Centre buckles under Ms. Mayawati's demand due to electoral
considerations in UP, it would have to succumb to the nearly
six-decade-old demand of the people of Telangana for having a State of
their own.
Flipside
However, there is a flip side too to the impact of Ms. Mayawati's
decision on Telangana.
It could push the Centre towards constituting a States Reorganisation
Commission (SRC), a step that has been vehemently opposed by the
votaries of a separate Telangana State, including the TRS and Congress
MPs in the region, after AICC office-bearers Rashid Alvi, Abhishek
Manu Singhvi and Digvijay Singh hinted at such a move last week.
Their perception is that acceptance of such a proposal might dilute
the movement. Moreover, there was no guarantee that the second edition
of the SRC would recommend a separate State.
There is yet another possibility – de-linking the issue of Telangana
from the SRC and treating it on a different plane altogether.
The basis for this line of thinking among the Congress leaders is
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's recent statement that Telangana is a
"complicated matter" and a decision would have to be taken on the
basis of political consensus.
This line has been since chorused by AICC general secretary in-charge
of the State Mr. Ghulam Nabi Azad.
Their further understanding is that a retired Supreme Court Judge
would head the SRC if and when it is created. In a way, the Commission
would be duplicating the year-long exercise already performed by the
Committee headed by Justice B. N. Srikrishna, himself a retired Judge
of the Apex Court. Among its six recommendations, the Srikrishna
Committee had suggested the "best way forward" was to keep the State
united after initiating confidence-building measures in Telangana.
Foremost among the measures was to create an empowered Regional
Council.
Since the Congress party has been harping that consensus was the sine
qua non for taking a decision on Telangana, it would experiment with
the Regional Council concept for a specific period of time and try to
hammer out a consensus.
If this proved elusive, the Centre could then finally take a call on Telangana.
But, this theory does not factor in the reality that the hour of
reckoning will come when the Andhra Pradesh Assembly elections are
held in 2014.
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