At a time when Andhra Pradesh is facing a severe revenue deficit and the Center has shamelessly backtracked on its promise of a special status to AP, KTR, the son of KCR feels that the Center is being more favorable to AP than Telangana.
“The Centre took almost nine months to give Telangana its share of IAS officers... The bifurcation of the high court has still not happened, while division of state employees by a Centre-appointed committee is yet to be completed. If central government was a little more helpful to Telangana than AP, we could have done a lot better,” he said.
KTR also feels the friction between Telangana and the residual state of Andhra Pradesh over issues like river water sharing is ‘natural’.
“There are issues between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, between Maharashtra and (the then undivided) Andhra Pradesh. This is not unnatural or out of the world,” he said.
If the Center was not helpful, the dream of Telangana would have remained just that: a dream. And coming to problems between neighboring states, there are bound to be issues.
But there was never any propagation of hatred against Maharashtra by AP or vice-versa unlike what you and your father indulge in.
