With the bifurcation of combined high court for Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and shifting of Andhra high court to Vijayawada on Tuesday, Hyderabad practically ceases to be a common capital for the two Telugu states.
This was announced by none other than Andhra Pradesh chief minister and Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday, while hosting a feast at his Vundavalli residence for acting chief justice C Praveen Kumar and 15 other judges who took oath in Vijayawada in the morning.
“The bifurcation of combined state is almost finished with the shifting of high court to Vijayawada. Everything is shifted except funds and assets,” Naidu said, adding that the time given for the shifting of the high court to Amaravati was not sufficient.
Hitherto, the AP government was running part of its law department in the state secretariat to with skeletal staff to deal with the cases pending in high court and criminal courts.
Now that judiciary has moved to Amaravati, even this department has also been shifted from Hyderabad.
Yet, the AP government still has its buildings for its police and intelligence departments. Though the officials don’t need to come here, they continue to remain in the name of AP government for another five years.
Interestingly, YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, who is forced to come to Hyderabad every Friday to attend the trial in the quid pro quo case in the CBI court, also may have to go to Vijayawada hereafter, as this court also has been shifted to Vijayawada.
In any case, Jagan’s padayatra will come to an end in another one week.
