Trs wants telangana Hc

Kalvakuntla Kavitha (39), Lok Sabha member from Telangana Rashtra Samithi, does everything with passion, whether it is a political mission or her goal to revive Bathukamma, a floral festival of her newly born state. Daughter of Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao, she is the first woman Parliamentarian from her state, representing Nizamabad constituency. On Wednesday, she reached the well of the Lok Sabha with other TRS MPs to make a strong demand for a separate high court for Telangana in Hyderabad. At present, Hyderabad already has a high court. Hyderabad is the joint capital of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh for 10 years under the Reorganisation Act. Andhra Pradesh is building its own capital in Amravati. Kavitha told The Sunday Guardian that there was nothing unusual to ask “for our own High Court at this stage”. In her opinion, it is very much legitimate for the Telangana people “to have our own exclusive institutions”. The judiciary is one of the pillars of any state’s democratic foundation. “We feel that the formation of Telangana is incomplete without its own high court.”

She cited the formation of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Uttarakhand by the Atal Behari Vajpayee government to say, “All these new states had got their high courts within 15 days. And in Telangana, we will have to wait for over three years, or maybe more.”

A separate high court for Telangana, she says, would reduce the pendency of cases. Telangana would be in a position to elevate its own judicial officers to the High Court and the Supreme Court. “We have been totally overlooked so far in this matter. We met Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and he has promised to make a statement in Parliament soon about a separate high court for Telangana.”