Governor office denies Harish statement

Hyderabad: Telangana irrigation minister T. Harish Rao  said the decision to barricade the Secretariat dividing AP and Telangana administrative blocks was taken by the Governor during the President’s rule period. However, the Raj Bhavan office denied any such decision taken by Mr. Narasimhan.

AP Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu commented in his media  conference on Wednesday that barricading was done by the Telangana government and such fencing was reminiscent of the divide India and Pakistan.

Even as the media was telecasting the statement made by Mr Hari-sh Rao the Governor’s office issued a statement denying it completely.

The security personnel manning the Secreta-riats of both AP and Telangana had on June 19 brought to the notice of Telangana Chief Mi-nister that due to criss crossing of official and non-official vehicles between the two Secretariats it would be better to erect barricades to solve the parking problem.

Police officials told him that most of the visitors to Secretariat are from the Seemandhra region but parking their vehicles near Telangana blocks causing huge problem for vehicular movements.

Telangana Chief Minister Chandrasekhar Rao has given a go ahead signal to the security to implement the proposal and accordingly the barricading was done.