Deputy leader of BJP in the Lok Sabha and senior party leader M Venkaiah Naidu in the Rajya Sabha raised the issue in zero hour saying the government should bring a bill in right earnest.
With passions flying high over Telangana, BJP today sought to corner the government in Parliament over the issue of the separate state, demanding a bill in the current session itself for carving it out of Andhra Pradesh.
Deputy leader of BJP in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj and senior party leader M Venkaiah Naidu in the Rajya Sabha raised the issue in Zero Hour saying the government should bring a bill in right earnest.
"Andhra Pradesh is on a boil. You don't want a solution. What is the stand of Congress and UPA on Telangana? You said you wanted a consensus. I don't think anybody is opposing now," Naidu said accusing the ruling party of acting in a manner which is giving rise to tensions.
BJP members Prakash Javadekar, Rudra Narayan Pany and others also stormed into the well of the Upper House over the issue. Swaraj told Speaker Meira Kumar that one of the members K Chandrasekhar Rao is on a fast-unto-death to press the issue, the agitation over which is intensifying each passing day.
The refrain of Naidu and Swaraj was that since their party is favouring formation of separate Telangana and Congress too has been speaking in support of it for some time, the Constitution Amendment bill could be passed easily.
In the Rajya Sabha, SS Ahluwalia (BJP) demanded a statement from the home minister on Telangana issue. Minister Ambika Soni assured the House that she would apprise the home minister and the prime minister about the matter.
Naidu also accused the ruling party of trying to fool the people on the issue. "When everybody is sympathetic to the issue then what is happening....Are you trying to fool the people. You did it in 1969 and 1972. You want to do it again," Naidu said quoting statements of senior Congress leaders including party chief Sonia Gandhi in favour of Telangana.
Members from the BJP and Congress also clashed over the issue for a while. Naidu said Government of India has not uttered a single word even as more than 20 persons belonging to all age groups have committed suicide and public properties are being attacked.
Swaraj said when BJP was in power, it had created three separate states and was in favour of a separate Telangana, which it could not do due to the opposition of the TDP led by Chandrababu Naidu, which was supporting the BJP government.
She pointed out that now TDP has also come out in support of the demand and the UPA had even constituted a committee headed by Pranab Mukherjee, which had given an assurance on the formation of a separate state but nothing has happened even after six months. Sharad Yadav (JD-U) associated with the contention of Swaraj.
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