‘Rayala-Telangana’ on the cards again
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Congress leaders from both Telangana and Rayalaseema regions have again started expressing confidence that party president Sonia Gandhi will announce a ‘Rayala-Telangana’ state to make 'bifurcation of the state viable, both economically and politically. The state would comprise the 10 districts of Telangana and Kurnool and Anantapur of Rayalaseema region.
Former minister J.C. Diwakar Reddy on Saturday said the Congress president was very favourably disposed towards the Rayala-Telangana proposal when he met her recently in Delhi. “She said it was already in her mind,” he said. The proposal was originally mooted by Medchal MLA K. Laxma Reddy a few months ago.
The political advantage, as the leaders perceive it, was that the Rayala-Tela-ngana proposal alone would divide the state exactly into two, in terms of electoral politics, i.e. 147 Assembly and 21 Lok Sabha segments for each state. All key leaders of the state, Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, PCC president Botsa Satyanarayana, K. Chiranjeevi, TD president N. Chandrababu Naidu and YSR Congress chief Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy hail from the ‘other state’.
A new leadership can be developed in the Rayala-Telangana region. Also, the apprehensions of the residents of both Kurnool and Anantapur district on meeting irrigation requirements if Telangana state comes about, would be allayed. Since all the main leaders of the state belong to Coastal Andhra and Chittoor and Kadapa districts, they would convince the people on the division of the state as their political survival depends on that region. The Congress leaders, said even the MIM was in favour of the ‘Rayala-Telangana’ proposal.
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