Hyderabad, Dec 31: A BJP delegation in Telangana, led by its President Bandi Sanjay Kumar, MP Today met Governor Dr Tamilisai Soundararajan at Raj Bhavan and urged her to put on hold the controversial GO-317.

They also urged her to hold comprehensive consultations with the Employees’ and Teachers’ unions to evolve rational guidelines with regard to transfers.

In a memorandum submitted to the Governor, a copy of which was released to media here, Mr Sanjay said, as you are aware, Neellu, Nidhulu, Niyamakalu (water, funds and employment) was not merely a slogan but the seminal mantra that inspired and sustained the separate Telangana statehood movement.

The employees and the teachers of the Telangana region, who had been victims of injustice and discrimination in jobs and postings in the erstwhile combined state of Andhra Pradesh, thought that a separate Telangana state would be able to mitigate their problems.

Accordingly, they played an important role in the fight for a separate state. After the creation of Telangana state in 2014, Presidential orders were issued afresh to form new zones in accordance with which GO-124 was issued in 2018.

Further, GO-317 was issued on December 6, 2021 as part of the process to effect transfers of the employees.

However, the contents of the GO-317 is in violation of the Presidential orders and the spirit of Telangana movement. It has now become the reason for the trauma that over three lakh employees and their families have been suffering since the issuance of the G.O.

This G.O. renders both the employees and the teachers non-local in the districts of their posting. In other words, the apprehensions that the Telangana employees had in the combined state, an apprehension that actually made them fight for the separate state, ironically has become a reality in the new state. This is indeed sad and unfortunate, Mr Sanjay said.(UNI)