Unless exhaustive consultations are made with stakeholders, who are organised as various Joint Action Committees, there may not be an amicable solution to this issue,” Chandrababu said in his letter. “The present process of bifurcation of the state is not in accordance with the spirit of the Constitution and established conventions.
The then NDA government had followed democratic procedure in the creation of Uttarakhand, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh states in 2000, wherein the respective states passed resolutions in their assemblies.
“This should have been taken as a good precedent for formation of new states but the Centre is not taking similar initiatives in the case of Andhra Pradesh,” he wrote.
He requested the President to direct the Centre to follow constitutional procedures and established conventions by inviting all stakeholders for consultations to resolve all contentious issues and only then proceed with the bifurcation after finding an amicable solution.
