Amid pandemonium, the Lok
Sabha Tuesday finally passed a bill aimed at carving out a Telangana state out
of Andhra Pradesh.
The Andhra Pradesh
Reorganisation Bill was passed by voice vote in the face of noisy protests by
Andhra Pradesh MPs opposed to Telangana as well as a section of the opposition
parties.
The critics, including at
least one Congress cabinet minister and CPI-M members, massed near Speaker
Meira Kumar screaming slogans against Andhra Pradesh's bifurcation but they
were ignored.
A fuming Y.S. Jaganmohan
Reddy, leader of the YSR Congress, called it 'a black day' in the history of
India and announced a general strike in Andhra Pradesh Wednesday.
'The bill was passed in
parliament today against the will of the (Andhra) assembly, against the will of
the people of Andhra Prdesh,' he told the media.
'Today we saw how
undemocratically the bill has been passed... The way the proceedings took place,
the way the ayes and noes were called by the speaker very clearly showed how
democracy can be killed in broad daylight.
'It is a black day in the
history of the country. We are declaring a bandh in Andhra Pradesh tomorrow.'
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