Jagan will go to SC against T-decision

YSR Congress president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy says he will challenge the Union Cabinet’s decision on the division of the state in the Supreme Court. Mr Reddy began an indefinite hungerstrike at his residence on Saturday, protesting against the Centre’s decision to divide the state in order to create the new state of Telangana. Speaking to the media at deeksha camp, Mr Reddy alleged that Congress president Sonia Gandhi wanted to make her son Rahul Prime Minister and has divided the state in order to get more votes and seats. “Sonia Gandhi is responsible for the crisis in the state and she has been playing with the sentiments of the people with the singular motive of seeing to it that her son Rahul Gandhi is made Prime Minister,” he said. He has demanded that Mrs Gandhi revoke the decision immediately. He also spoke about the legal problems involved in the state’s division and wondered how the Centre could find solutions to these in six weeks. Mr Reddy said he is opposing the unilateral manner in which the Centre is functioning. How can it go ahead with the bifurcation process without a resolution in the state Assembly, he queried. “We know what happened to the ordinance on protecting convicted legislatures after AICC vice-president Rahul Gandhi intervened. He can do a similar thing on the issue of Andhra Pradesh’s bifurcation,” Mr Reddy suggested. Asked to comment on Telugu Desam president Chandrababu Naidu’s proposed indefinite hungerstrike from Monday in Delhi, Mr Reddy said that Mr Naidu should spell out his stand on the state’s division first. Mr Naidu must write a letter to the Centre saying that he stands for a united AP, he said. Mr Jagan Reddy said that if CM Kiran Kumar Reddy is sincere about his support for a united state, why did he not convene the Assembly and pass a resolution opposing the state’s division and in support of united AP