Rajahmundry: Nine senior advocates filed a writ petition recently in the Supreme Court seeking its direction to declare the process of bifurcation of the state to set up a separate Telangana state as unconstitutional and violative of the principles of federalism.
The advocates appealed to the Apex Court to call the records of Centre’s notification issued on October 8, to constitute a group of ministers to look into the bifurcation of the state and quash the notification as it is violative of Article 14 of the Indian Constitution.
They also sought to declare such notification as violative of Articles 3, 14 and 371 D of the Indian Constitution. They also asked the SC to declare the action of the Centre to form a separate state as unconstitutional, irrational, arbitrary and unjust stating that the latter is having no such authority to do so and referred to the earlier cases of Keshavananda Bharti versus state of Kerala and S.R. Bommai versus Union of India.
Seemandhra JAC co-convenor Muppala Subba Rao who is also one of the petitioners said that the SC scheduled to hear their petition along with similar petitions filed by others on the same issue on November 18. The writ was filed by A. Venagayam Balan on behalf of the nine advocates while it was settled by senior advocate M.N. Rao.
Out of nine advocates, seven are from Seemandhra region while one is an advocate in SC in New Delhi while another in High Court in Hyderabad.
