Supreme Court order can’t be generalised: TDP

VV Balakrishna
First Published : 19 Oct 2009 05:26:00 AM IST
Last Updated : 19 Oct 2009 08:59:19 AM IST

HYDERABAD: The main Opposition party, Telugu Desam, is opposing the Supreme Court’s order on Hyderabad `free zone’ for implementation of GO 610 for police department. It feels that the SC order serves only a limited purpose and it cannot be generalised.

``Any decision against the Six-Point Formula or Presidential Order is not acceptable to TDP,’’ a TDP leader from Telangana told Express here Sunday.

The party studied the SC order and opined that there was no word `free zone’ in the order. The order was limited to only two groups of employees in the police department.

The court order was based on a technical point that Hyderabad city police were not covered under Zone VI in the Presidential Order.

``The TDP sticks to the Six-Point Formula, the Presidential Order and the GO 610. Any deviation or judgment against these three is not acceptable to the TDP,’’ a Politburo member of the party said.

The same opinion would be expressed by the party at the all-party meeting to be convened by the government Monday. Party leaders Nagam Janardhan Reddy, MV Mysoora Reddy and Yanamala Ramakrishnudu will attend the all-party meeting.

The party leaders felt that there was no word `Hyderabad as free zone’ in the Supreme Ccourt order. Such word was never found in GO 610, the Presidential Order or in the Six-Point Formula, they said.

The `free zone’ issue never came up, a party leader said and felt that no one can imagine Telangana state without Hyderbad.

TDP leaders are livid with TRS chief K Chandrasekhara Rao for making an issue out of nothing. He had no issue on hand and was therefore using Hyderabad free zone issue to derive political mileage, a TDP leader alleged.

``Everyone should understand that the SC order was limited to a particular department and it never stated that Hyderabad was a free zone,’’ a TDP leader asserted after going through the SC order. For all other purposes Hyderabad was a part of Zone VI, he added.

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