Chief Minister, K Chandrasekhar Rao, has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, lodging a fierce protest against law and order for Hyderabad being placed in the charge of Governor ESL Narasimhan. (File photo)
The government grappled this morning with angry protests in Parliament by law-makers from Telangana over a decision that assigns law and order in the state capital of Hyderabad to the Governor.
Telangana, the country's youngest state, was born in June; for a decade, its prize asset of Hyderabad will be a shared capital with the residuary Andhra Pradesh state from which Telangana was carved out. (
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Its Chief Minister,
K Chandrasekhar Rao, has written to Prime Minister
Narendra Modi, lodging a fierce protest against law and order for Hyderabad being placed in the charge of Governor ESL Narasimhan. KCR, as he is known, says the transfer of power, ordered by the Union Home Ministry, violates the most basic tenets of federalism.
The 10 members of the Lok Sabha who are from KCR's party want an urgent discussion on the controversy in Parliament.
On Friday, the state's senior most bureaucrat, the chief secretary, received a letter from the Union Home Ministry prescribing that the police in Hyderabad be made accountable to the Governor.
What prompted this over two months after the formation of the new state? The Centre's letter is reportedly prompted by the need to propitiate its partner,
Chandrababu Naidu, who is the chief minister of the edited Andhra Pradesh state. Mr Naidu's party is a member of the coalition government at the Centre, and has been concerned that KCR is trying to appropriate valuable property and assets in Hyderabad for his government. Mr Naidu's administration is also worried about the alleged discrimination against people from his state who live in Hyderabad. (
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