Hyderabad, March 24: There is a certain ‘lull’ on the political scene in Andhra Pradesh in the past few days as compared to the intense turmoil witnessed in the state since December over the separate statehood demand for Telangana.
It was the five-member Srikrishna Committee, appointed by the Centre to study the situation in Andhra Pradesh, that has brought about the turnaround in the situation, so to say.
The ongoing Budget session of the state Legislature also holds mirror to the current scenario where disturbances, if any, were centred around issues concerning the people like the unprecedented energy crisis, acute drinking water scarcity, irregularities in implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme, etc rather than political or the state separation demand.
The major political parties that had been engaged in on-street “struggles”, for and against the division of the state since December 9 last year, were confined to the drawing rooms over the last few days, busy drafting their respective points of view on the state bifurcation issue to be presented to the Srikrishna Committee.
Their pre-occupation with this documentation process has left little scope for the political parties to engage in any other activity.
-PTI