AP: Lok Satta for comprehensive solution to division issues

Lok Satta chief and MLA N Jayaprakash Narayan is going to embark on "a mission" to mobilise people's support for a comprehensive and amicable solution to the problems thrown up by the Centre's unilateral decision to divide Andhra Pradesh, the party said today.
"Treating Andhra Pradesh as their personal estate, the Congress party and the Union Government have opted to divide the state without associating all stakeholders in decision making," it said in a statement here.
As people in Rayalaseema and Coastal Andhra protested against the division plan, Congress chose to appoint a party committee instead of a government committee to give them a hearing, it said.

"The Prime Minister had maintained studied silence even as the chasm between people of different regions is widening," the party said.
As per the mission, named 'Telugu Tejam', Narayan would visit important towns in Rayalaseema and Coastal Andhra from September 14 to 27 and hold round-table conferences and public meetings.
He would call upon the people "not to be swayed by passion and become pawns in political parties' cynical machinations" to garner votes by fuelling hatred, it said.

Whether the state remains intact or is divided, the glory of Telugus and their language should not be sullied by people from various regions fighting against each other, it said.

The party also said that solutions would have to be found in five key areas: fate of Greater Hyderabad, sharing of revenue from Hyderabad, government employees, distribution of water resources and development of Rayalaseema region.
Residents of Hyderabad, irrespective of the region they hail from, should be provided statutory protection for pursuing their professions or job there, the party said.