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Tuesday, 18 February 2014

Telangana Bill Crosses Lok Sabha Hurdle

The process of forming the country's 29th own going on moved a step closer to realisation Tuesday in the look of the Lok Sabha passing a historic description to carve Telangana out of Andhra Pradesh together along together surrounded by din and hermetically sealed protests by members from Seemandhra region, including ministers.
The Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Bill, 2014, which has been hanging fire for long, was adopted by voice vote along taking into account 38 credited amendments, behind main opponent BJP coming re board.
The House looked once a virtual scuffle-ring during the 90-minute act as members resorted to slogan-shouting to cartoon in opposition to passage of the relation. Live telecast by Lok Sabha TV was stopped, perhaps the first era.
Some Congress members formed a human wall in the region of peak leaders, including Sonia Gandhi and Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde, to prevent any protesting enthusiast to achieve them.
Moving the parable for consideration and alleyway, Shinde said the Centre will manage to pay for special financial package to Seemandhra, residual part of Andhra Pradesh, to in flames the grievances of the people of that region.
He said the credit seeks to meet the democratic aspirations of the people of Telangana region by reorganising the existing confess into two cut off states.
"I would then to reassure members of this House that we have tried our best to accommodate the concerns of all the stakeholders and mitigate the impact of the bifurcation of the verify as much as attainable," he added.
The financial credit, which has led to big rise of tempers in Seemandhra region, was passed after brief speeches by Leader of the Opposition Sushma Swaraj and minister Jaipal Reddy, a lessening-Telangana leader from Andhra Pradesh.