Trapped in a situation of helplessness after a political war between Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, ESL Narasimhan, Governor common both states are playing the unenviable role of an arbitrator against all odds.
Sources placed highly contended that the governor has done everything possible to calm the situation is out of hand after TDP MLA A. Revanth Reddy was arrested allegedly trying to bribe nominated MLA Elvis Stephenson to support his party’s candidate in the recent elections the Legislative Council.
If authoritative sources are to be believed, but by the intervention of the Governor’s Office of Anticorruption Telangana (ACB) he would have gone ahead and set in chief N. Chandrababu Naidu AP and other self minister on Wednesday. At the meeting between him and the chief minister Rao K.Chandrasekhar Telangana, the issue came up and was in the instance of the former that the measure was dropped for the moment.
It is known that Mr. Rao had informed the ACB Goverrnor that detectives were willing to serve a notice on Mr. Naidu and others because they have “evidence rearing ‘nail them. It is believed that Mr. Narasimhan have advised the Mr. Rao against taking such measures as the problem could worsen in a major dispute between the two States.
It is also understood to have taken the initiative to see that the CTM TDP candidate in the recent Legislative Council election Vem Narendra Reddy was fired after questioning. The sources said that, but for that action, Mr. Narendra Reddy had been arrested.
The task of the governor, said the sources, was cut, as the Centre reportedly wanted him to see two States stop fighting about bribery and audio tapes alleged leak involving AP Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu and nominated MLA. While the AP government began targeting the Government Telangana updates it on all developments.
The sources said that the Centre did not want tensions between the two governments get out of control, which could lead to a constitutional crisis without precedent and therefore have repeatedly advise the Governor to take the initiative and thrash out differences . His work has become sensitive after he was attacked by the TDP in recent days.
Over a year ago in Andhra Pradesh branches in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and took over both states as Governor, Mr. Narasimhan not have imagined even in their wildest dreams that I would be caught in war K. policy between governments Chandrashekar Rao and N. Chandrababu Naidu.
Since the controversy erupted voting money for the last week of May, the Governor has been on the receiving end of a vicious attack of the highest levels of the TDP, on the grounds that it has become a silent spectator to the alleged Bronze illegal acts Telanagana targeting government officials. His case is that the governor should have acted in his accusations of wiretapping by the government of Telangana. However, the AP government has not publicly come out with any evidence to support the allegations.
Test case
The extraordinary provision in the Law on AP Re-organization, which gives the Governor with law and order powers in the joint capital of Hyderabad to safeguard “freedom and security” of citizens residing elsewhere in the city, makes the constitutional authority of bias vulnerable to attack by one or both of the States. The political war between the two states has become the first test case for the unique experiment of a common Governor with responsibility for safeguarding the interests of all citizens in Hyderabad.
