CMs of Andhra, Telangana Meet to Resolve Pending Inter-State Issues

Hyderabad: The Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh n Chandrababu Naidu and Telangana CM A Revanth Reddy on Saturday decided to form two separate committees with ministers and officials to resolve the pending issues of bifurcation.

In was the first meeting between the two CMs of the two Telgu speaking states. It took place at Praja Bhavan in Hyderabad for more than one and a half hours.

The two CMs to form two separate committees, one comprising ministers, and the other one with officials headed by Chief Secretaries to resolve the pending issues of the AP Reorganisation Act, particularly regarding division of assets.

It was decided that the states would write to the Ministry of Home Affairs to retransfer five villages panchayats of Etapaka, Gundala, Purushothapatnam, Kannaigudem and Picchukalapadu to Bhadrachalam Mandal in Telangana.

Recently, the concerned Gram Sabhas had passed resolutions to that effect. The villages were included in the seven mandals that were transferred to AP in 2014 due to the Polavaram project.

Apart from Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy, Deputy Chief Minister Bhatti Vikramarka, Ministers Ponnam Prabhakar, and Sridhar Babu were present along with the chief secretary and senior officials.

Besides Chandrababu Naidu, Ministers Kandula Durgesh, Sathyaprasad, and BC Janardhan Reddy were present in the meeting apart from Chief Secretary and officials of AP.

Revanth Reddy accorded a grand welcome to the AP Chief Minister and presented him a copy of the book ‘Na Godava’ authored by Kaloji Narayana Rao.