Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014
Amidst a lot of protest in the Lok Sabha (the lower house of the Parliament of India), the bill was introduced by the speaker Meira Kumar at 12:00 pm on 13 February 2014.
[10] During this time, there was a lot of shouting of slogans and disruption of proceedings by the Seemandhra (non-Telangana) MPs in the parliament who were determined to stop the bill.
[12] On 18 February 2014, the Telangana Bill was passed by the Voice Vote in the Lok Sabha with support from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) while the live telecast of the House was cut off and the doors and galleries were sealed.
[13][14][15] The Seemandhra leaders accused the United Progressive Alliance government of having taken it up for electoral gains and said it was a "black day" for the Indian parliament.
[19] Jairam Ramesh said that the special category status for residual state of Andhra Pradesh is a decision of the Union Cabinet endorsed by the National Development Council (NDC) with the precedent of Uttarakhand.
[20] Due to disruptions to the House, Meira Kumar suspended 18 MPs from Andhra Pradesh on 13 February 2014 for the rest of the session.
[21][22][23] Though only an opinion is required under Article 3 of the Indian Constitution, a resolution was adopted and the bill was rejected by the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly and Council on 30 January 2014.
Nine petitions were filed in the Supreme Court of India requesting a stay of the tabling of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Bill in parliament.
[33] AP state also decided to approach the Supreme Court regarding the discriminatory sharing of commercial taxes' income and refunds under sections 50, 51 and 56 of the act.
The state was weary of the Central government's inaction for a long time to amend these sections such that it stood to lose INR 36 billion.
[39] The bill was drafted based on the boundaries of the proposed Telangana State as approved by the Union Cabinet in its meeting on 3 October 2013.
The Boards would be responsible for making an appraisal of proposals for construction of new projects on Krishna and Godavari rivers and give technical clearance.
The Governor's responsibility shall extend to matters such as law and order, internal security and safety of all vital installations in the discharge of these functions.
The Bill provides for the creation of separate cadres of All India Services[clarification needed] in respect of the two states from the appointed day.
In this period of three years, the GoI shall assist the successor state of Andhra Pradesh in setting up a similar training centre for Greyhounds.
Later, the Polavaram ordinance merging the project-affected villages in the residuary Andhra Pradesh state was accepted by the Parliament in July 2014.
Three mandals from Palvancha revenue division, namely Kukunoor, Velerupadu, Burgampadu (except 12 villages, namely Pinapaka, MorampalliBanjara, Laxmipuram, Burgampadu, Naginiprolu, Krishnasagar, Tekula, Sarapaka, Iravendi, Motepattinagar, Uppusaka, Nakiripeta and Sompalli), have been added to West Godavari district.
