GoM may find it hard to serve T in Winter Session

Hyderabad: Fresh doubts have cropped up in the Group of Ministers about the possibility of introducing the AP Reorganisation Bill in the Winter Session of Parliament.

Though Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde insisted that the Telangana Bill be introduced in Parliament during the Winter Session, there was considerable discussion in Wednesday’s meeting of the GoM about the tight timelines to be followed to make it happen.

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According to sources, the GoM was told by the home ministry that the minimum amount of time that the Maharashtra Assembly took to give its views when Gujarat state was created was 20 days. It took 47 days in the case of Chhattisgarh.

“Even if the Centre breaks all the business rules and rushes the Bill to the Cabinet in the first week of December, it will not reach the state Assembly before December 9,” sources said.

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No T hurdles in House

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Hyderabad: It is almost certain that the Telangana Bill will be sent to the state Assembly. In political circles, the discussions focus on who will move the Bill in the Assembly?

Political leaders are discussing whether Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, who is a strong integrationist, or legislative affairs minister D. Sridhar Babu, who belongs to the Telangana region, will take the responsibility of moving the Telangana Bill in the Assembly.

Generally, the ministers will move the Bill with their portfolios. As the leader of the House, the Chief Minister has got the right to move any Bill.

But according to Assembly Secretariat sources, there is no necessity of moving the Telangana Bill, either by the Chief Minister or by any other minister.

After the House begins, the Assembly Speaker will read out the communiqué which was recei-ved from the President of India.

Later he will ask the leader of the House, the Chief Minister, to start the proceedings to express their views on the Telangana Bill. Acc-ording to sources, while expressing views on the Telangana Bill, no other resolutions or amendments to the Telangana Bill will be allowed.

The Seemandhra Congress ministers and MLAs are repeatedly saying that they will defeat the Telangana Bill in the Assembly.

And some others said they will put an amendment to the Bill, that the Telangana state should have only nine districts, excluding Hyd-erabad district. But th-ere is no chance of def-eating the Bill or putting any amendments.

The House has a right to express its views on Telangana Bill, only if there is a necessity to accept the Bill.

Another point is to whom will the President send the Telangana Bill ? Will he send it only to the Governor or to the Chief Minister and Assembly Speaker also.

The general practice according to Assembly sources, is that after the Union Cabinet sends the Telangana Bill (Andhra Pradesh State Reorganisation Bill) to the President of India, he will send it to the Governor, through the Union home ministry, which is a nodal agency to express Assembly views. Then the Governor will send the Bill to the Assembly Speaker to get the views.

After convening the Assembly secession on the first day itself, the Speaker will read out the communiqué which was received from the President of India and after that the leader of the House, the Chief Minister, will start expressing his views with other members.

The Assembly business advisory committee (BAC) will decide the agenda.