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Quoting The 'Act' When Convenient!

With the Krishnapatnam power project being commissioned, Telangana is quoting the 'AP Reorganization Act' to demand its rightful share of power from it. However, the same TRS government is completely throwing the ‘Act’ to the winds in many other instances.

For example, in release of water from Srisailam and Nagarjuna Sagar, Telangana is not giving AP its fair due. This move is badly affecting the farmers of Rayalaseema and Prakasam. And now, KCR has decided to take over the ‘IAS Officers Association Office’ located at Greenlands, Hyderabad and convert it into his residence.

Although the building has been lease out to the Association for 33 years, KCR plans to cancel the lease and work has already begun in this regard. Why this particular office? Because the vaastu advisors said so!

According to the sources, even if the CM does not move into the building immediately, he would want the office of the bureaucrats' association to be shifted out of the south-west side of his current residence. This is because, as vaastu experts have reportedly told him, the elevated position of the IAS officers' building would mean that the babus would dominate governance.

While the Telangana cadre officers have not voiced their dissent so far against the CM's decision, sources said that retired-IAS officers from the Andhra cadre have approached governor E S L Narasimhan to register their protest.

As per the AP Reorganization Act, Section 8 (1), the governor would have the final say on the "management and allocation of government buildings in the common capital area. The fact that the CM has not taken the consent of the governor, has also irked the AP babus. The association belongs to both Telangana and AP officers. How can the CM of one state take over the building? This is nothing but high-handedness," said one officer.

Other officers pointed out that going by ethical code of conduct, the CM should not be taking over the building for the next 10 years, with Hyderabad being the common capital of the two states.

"This is a place which is used by all officers residing in Hyderabad. Even retired officers who live close by use the premises for meetings and other programmes. The CM should have considered all this before deciding to annex the plot," said another officer.

Thus there are many instances of KCR flouting the Reorganization Act. If KCR behaves in a fair manner on all issues, then he has the moral right to quote the Act in all issues with AP. Clearly, that is not the case here.

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