HYDERABAD: BJP legislator M. Raghunandan Rao on Friday appealed to the judiciary to take a decision on the issue of IAS and IPS officers allocated to Andhra Pradesh who still working in Telangana. He told reporters that the Supreme Court decision on the issue of all-India service officers’ place of posting was clear, and that the officials have no say in seeking options of their choice.
He said he had lodged a complaint with the Prime Minister’s Office and the Union department of personnel and training on this issue, and received an acknowledgement from the PMO that his complaint had been received and was being processed. “There are 15 all-India service officers assigned for AP working in Telangana. Just as former chief secretary Somesh Kumar was sent to his assigned AP state, the others too should be sent,” he said.
He appealed to the state judiciary not to treat appeals filed by the officiails individually but to treat them as one case and dispose it of appropriately, in the light of SC judgment.
On the Miyapur land scam, Raghunandan Rao urged Chief Secretary A. Santhi Kumari to implead the state in the January 23 hearing of the special leave petition (SLP) filed by the Ranga Reddy district collector in the Supreme Court challenging the High Court orders allowing the sale of eight acres in Survey No 78 of Miyapur.
“I had highlighted this issue a few days ago. I urge the Chief Secretary to also have the Ranga Reddy collector file an SLP in the other 40 acres of land that is under dispute. Just as the eight acres are claimed to be government land, the 40 acres claimed by the Andhra Pradesh BRS chief Thota Chandrashekar is also government land. There should not be two types of justice for different people,” Raghunandan Rao said.
