After staging a dharna at Gandhi statue in the parliament premises, TRS MPs have started shouting slogans in the Loksabha today demanding the Centre to divide the combined high court of AP and Telangana states.

TRS MP Jitendar Reddy speaking in the house said “Many people from the state are facing lot of problems in filing petitions in the combined high court. Hence the Centre should take initiative to divide the high court immediately.

Union Law Minister Sadananda Gouda responding on this issue told them that Centre is also willing to divide the combined high court. He assured them that he will take a decision on this issue once he receives the copies of the high court verdict on this issue.

But, the high court has plainly stated in its verdict that the combined high court can’t be divided or a separate high court for either AP or Telangana state can’t be set-up in the Hyderabad as there is no provision for such things mentioned in the AP Reorganization Bill. The high court has made it clear that a separate high court can’t be set up in Hyderabad as the existing one belongs to it only. Moreover, a separate high court can’t be formed in the Telangana state until the AP Government builds its own high court somewhere in the AP State.

So, unless the Central government agrees to amend the AP reorganization Bill to enable the Telangana government to shift its high court to a new premises, there is no meaning in TRS MP continuing their fight for it in the Parliament.