It is now official. The AP government has decided to drop November 1 as the AP formation day. Instead, it would celebrate it on June 8, when the new State of Andhra Pradesh was officially formed after bifurcation of the erstwhile AP.
All these years, November 1 was being celebrated as official AP formation day, as it was on this day that the State was formed.
However, Naidu government was in a quandary as whether it should continue to treat it as the formation day, as only Telangana got separated and the remaining State is continuing with the same old name.
But officials apparently told him that since the erstwhile AP ceased to exist and two new States were formed, there is no point in celebrating the formation day on November 1.
“This day was celebrated with the merger of Telangana region with Andhra in 1956. Since the situation is back to pre-1956 period, there is no meaning in celebrating the day on November 1,” sources said.
However, YSR Congress party took strong objection to the TDP government announcing that it will not celebrate November 1 as the State Formation Day.
Party leader Dharmana Prasada Rao said the new state of Telangana was formed on June 2 which was separated from the existing state of Andhra Pradesh that was formed on November 1, 1956 on linguistic basis. So, the original State will remain as it is. Hence, the celebrations should be done on November 1, he argued.
