HYDERABAD, Jan 30 � The Andhra Pradesh Legislature today rejected the Telangana Bill by voice vote, capping days of acrimonious drama and embarrassing Congress, but posing no real hurdle in the way of creation of the new state, reports PTI.
Dominated by Seemandhra MLAs, numbering 160 in the House with an effective strength of 279, including the Speaker and the Chief Minister, the Assembly discarded the Centre-backed AP Reorganisation Bill 2013, on which no division was taken.
Amid high drama, Speaker Nadendla Manohar put the resolution moved by CM N Kiran Kumar Reddy seeking rejection of the Bill for consideration and it was carried by voice vote.
The resolution said: �The House while rejecting the AP Reorganisation Bill, 2013, resolves to request the Honourable President of India not to recommend it for introduction in Parliament as the Bill seeks to bifurcate the state of Andhra Pradesh without any reason/basis and without arriving at a consensus.�
