Film actor and Jana Sena founder Pawan Kalyan today warned that not resolving issues between Telangana and Andhra Pradesh may lead to civil unrest and sought PM Narendra Modi’s intervention for establishment of cordial relations between the two states.
“Both UPA and NDA have responsibility to handle the affairs of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. If you keep on ignoring the issue, one day it will lead to civil war and civil unrest in both the states. I request Prime Minister Narendra Modi to look into it…I request you sir,” the Jana Sena leader said in a media briefing.
Maintaining that the residuary Andhra Pradesh got a raw deal in the state bifurcation, he alleged that the division was done “haphazardly”.
He said chief ministers of both the states should sit together and sort out their issues.
On Section 8, which gives special powers to Governor on law and order in Hyderabad, he said he is against implementing it at this stage.
Ever since Revanth Reddy, the TDP MLA from Telangana, was arrested in the “cash-for-vote” case, the ruling party in Andhra Pradesh is accusing the ruling TRS government in Telangana of tapping the phone numbers of “important people” of AP including the CM.
The allegation, however, was rubbished by the TRS government.
Both the governments and the ruling parties in the two states have been engaged in a bitter war of words over the alleged cash-for-vote controversy, alleged phone-tapping and construction of irrigation projects for the past one month.
Pawan Kalyan said CBI inquiry has to be ordered to bring out the truth in the alleged phone-tapping.
He also criticised the MPs from Andhra Pradesh for “not doing sufficient” to get special status for the state.