‘Bifurcation, not trifurcation of Prakasam district need of the hour’

Ongole and Markapur headquartered districts favoured by stakeholders

The Andhra Pradesh government’s decision to go for reorganisation of districts by adding 13 new ones, seems to have stirred up a hornet’s nest.

While the ruling YSR Congress Party justifies the move on the ground of decentralised administration as promised before polls, the opposition parties and civil society organisations see no justification behind the move to carve out new districts with Lok Sabha constituencies as basis for division as the delimitation of parliamentary constituencies is likely to be taken up by the Centre every decade or so. The move by the Jagan Mohan Reddy government is largely being seen as alleged diversionary tactics from the growing agitations over various burning issues, including the pay hike demanded by the State government employees.