After speculation that the Cabinet in a late night note had decided that Hyderabad would be the capital of Telangana, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde today denied that the Cabinet would be discussing anything related to the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh.
“It is all speculation,” Shinde said, according to a report on CNN-IBN.
The Home Minister said that the formation of the new state was not on the agenda of the Cabinet and said there was no truth to the report that Hyderabad would be the capital of the new state.
Shinde said that the Cabinet was awaiting the AK Antony report on the matter before the final decision is taken.
CNN-IBN had reported that a cabinet note on the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh has proposed that Hyderabad be named the capital of Telangana and further proposed that Hyderabad would serve as a joint capital for both Telangana and Seemandhra for a period of ten years.
The report had also said that the cabinet is due to take the matter up for discussion this evening.
The Congress Working Committee on 30 July had passed a resolution requesting the Centre ‘to take steps in accordance with the Constitution to form a separate state of Telangana within a definite timeframe’.
It’s been two months since the government announced the decision to grant statehood to Telangana, despite Seemandhra and Rayalaseema regions remaining virtually shut-down for nearly two months.
