Hyderabad: Telangana bill aimed at division of Andhra Pradesh has finally reached Andhra Pradesh assembly Thursday evening.
A senior official of the union home ministry reached Hyderabad along with the draft Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Bill 2013 by a special aircraft, and handed over the bill to a senior legislature official as well as the also chief secretary.
Suresh Kumar, joint secretary in the ministry, drove to the assembly and handed over the bill to legislature secretary Raja Sadaram.
He earlier met Chief Secretary P. K. Mohanty at the state secretariat. He also called on Governor E. S. L. Narasimhan and Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy before returning to the national capital.
The chief secretary later drove to the chief minister's camp office. He is believed to have briefed him about the features of the bill and the covering letter from the ministry.
The assembly has been asked to send back the bill with its comments by Jan 23.
