Hyderabad: The Telangana state Assembly on Tuesday unanimously passed two resolutions urging the centre to withdraw the new Electricity Amendment Bill 2022 proposed by the centre keeping in mind the interests of farmers and poorer sections and name the new Parliament building in New Delhi after Dr. B.R. Ambedkar.
On the final day of the Monsoon Session on Tuesday, the House also approved seven resolutions. After Speaker Pocharam Srinivas Reddy adjourned the House sine die, the session was over in just three days.
It would be appropriate to name the newly built Parliament building after Ambedkar, the man who created the Indian Constitution, said the Minister KT Rama Rao (KTR), who moved the first resolution. He claimed Telangana state would never have been if Ambedkar had not included Article 3 in the Constitution.
"If today we are sitting in the Assembly, debating various issues and making legislations, the credit goes to Ambedkar entirely. Telangana state was made possible by Ambedkar's incorporation of Article 3 into the Constitution, which allowed Parliament the authority to split a state into two regardless of whether the state Assembly approved of the split or not. Rama Rao said, "If there is no Ambedkar or Article 3, there is no Telangana state or Telangana Assembly.
He claimed that the Ambedkari ideas for the welfare and advancement of all sections without discrimination were being carried out by the Telangana state government. He said, "Ambedkar gave the country a direction, and there is no greater way to honour him than by naming the new Parliament building after him.
The only BJP MLA, M. Raghunandan Rao, was not present in the House when the motion was carried, but the Congress and the AIMIM did. Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka, the leader of the Congress Legislative Party (CLP), pleaded with the state administration to permit the placement of the Ambedkar statue at Punjagutta Junction. He claimed that when senior Congress leader V. Hanumantha Rao and others attempted to install the Ambedkar statue at Punjagutta two years ago, police moved it to the police station and it has since remained there.
KTR informed the Assembly that the state government had nothing against placing an Ambedkar statue there; it was simply following Supreme Court instructions that forbade the erection of statues on public highways. He further stated that Ambedkar's 125-foot-tall statue will be erected by the state government by January 2023 close to Prasad's Imax and he advised Congress leaders not to insist on having the statue placed at Punjagutta.
Minister of Energy G. The motion opposing the Electricity (Amendments) Bill 2022 and requesting that the Centre rescind the Bill was proposed by Jagadish Reddy. He claimed that the Bill went against the interests of farmers, the underprivileged, and the 20 lakh workers in the country's electricity sector. The Assembly unanimously approved the resolution.
The House also passed seven bills which include, e Telangana Goods and Service Tax (Amendment) Bill, 2022; the Azamabad Industrial Area (Termination and Regulation of Leases) (Amendment) Bill, 2022; the Telangana Municipal Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2022; the Telangana Public Employment (Regulation of Age of Superannuation) (Amendment) Bill, 2022; the University of Forestry Telangana Bill, 2022.
He also said that the state government resumed 1,234 acres from various enterprises that failed to establish activities or became non-functional following land allocation from 2014 to 2020 while moving the Azamabad Industrial Area (Termination and Regulation of Leases) (Amendment) Bill, 2022.
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