New Delhi:
The Supreme Court today dismissed a plea challenging the move to create a separate Telangana state as "premature".
A bench of Justice HL Dattu and Justice SJ Mukhopadhaya said there were several steps to be taken before a separate state of Telangana becomes a reality.
The court also said that when the proposal goes before parliament, it may or may not be accepted, indicating that it was too early for it to entertain such a plea.
The PIL petitioner PV Krishnaiah had sought direction that the central government had no powers under Article 3 of the Constitution to create Telangana by bifurcating Andhra Pradesh.
He said that Andhra Pradesh was formed on November 11, 1956, by merging the Andhra state with part of the Hyderabad State - that represented Telangana region - based on the linguistic criteria.
The PIL said that the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh by creating Telangana would violate the fundamental rights the people belonging to backward areas and districts irrespective of regions as they would be deprived of special reservations provided to local candidates under article 371 D of the Constitution of India.
Mr Krishnaiah contended that central government had no justification to create a separate Telangana state without having material to establish the necessity to form new state instead of forming the new state only based on political advantage or political demands.