Wednesday, February 6, 2019

Editorial, "ANOTHER CRAZY BIFURCATION," in LAW ANIMATED WORLD, 31 December 2018, Vol. 14: Parrt 2, No. 24 issue







ANOTHER CRAZY BIFURCATION

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we are witnessing in this land of Telugus – now of the common High Court, without any adequate prior arrangements and this despite the existence and validity of the A.P. Reorganization Act 2014 according to which Hyderabad still remains the common capital of both the States and so there is no urgency for the separation. As this editor repeatedly pointed out earlier, the continuance of the common High Court with suitable benches in the Andhra State would have been of great benefit to the Telugu people in general, actually this should have been done in the united Telugu State itself and that perhaps would have pacified to a great extent the discontent among Telangana advocates too. But at that time, when advocates in Guntur and Vizag were agitating for months together for separate benches, the governments as well as Andhra region advocates in the High Court turned a blind eye, the latter solely motivated by selfish interests, and well now they are reaping a bitter consequence in one way. The regional chauvinists in Telangana are jubilant, for no reason at all, because except for a few Judge posts to the favored by the government and establishment the majority of them are not going to reap any additional benefits but may be additional disadvantages even might ensue, and their champion chief minister, having entered into a secret deal with the ruling party at the centre, is jubilant too. On the other side, the selfish AP CM bungled again, having submitted an affidavit to the Supreme Court that a separate building for AP High Court would be ready by 15 December itself, fully knowing it would not so happen, solely for his political advantage to boast in the forthcoming elections propaganda. And a crazy notification issued from the President’s office dividing the two as if by a razor cut and ordaining everything be done in 5 days or so, and in any case the respective Judges to take oaths at the respective Courts in the respective regions by the stroke of midnight if possible! Not just the AP Government but the Telangana and Central Governments, even the High Court and the Supreme Court, do not have the minimum sense that such large scale shifting should not take place in the midst of an academic year. High level bureaucrats and Judges have all facilities at all times at public cost; but it is the middle and lower class staff, common advocates and their families and also clients that suffer. What can we do? – this is the real face of our much boasted socialist democracy!  §§§


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