AP’s connections with Hyderabad city end today

The youngest state in the country, Telangana, is completing 10 years on June 2. Thus the ‘capital’ links of Andhra Pradesh with Hyderabad have come to an end.
The Andhra Pradesh State Reorganisation Act says that Hyderabad would be the joint capital of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh for only 10 years. But even after 10 years, issues regarding finance and the division of various government corporations between the two Telugu states are still pending.
The Centre recently settled the bifurcation of AP Bhavan in New Delhi between Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. However, the dispute between the two Telugu states is continuing regarding the partition of the assets of corporations based in Hyderabad and in other parts of Telangana. Both the Telugu states are not ready to compromise on this.
The dispute between the two Telugu states over RTC assets has not been resolved. While Andhra Pradesh is demanding a share in the RTC’s assets located in Hyderabad city, Telangana has refused to accept that.
After 10 years both the Telugu states are unable to reach consensus over the division of institutions listed in the 9th and 10th Schedules of the State Reorganisation Act. The 9th Schedule lists around 89 institutions and the 10th Schedule lists 107 training institutions and other establishments.
During the last 10 years, the BRS was in power in Telangana and the Congress came to power four months ago. In Andhra Pradesh, the TDP was in power for the first five years after bifurcation and the YSR Congress came to power after that.
Assembly elections were held recently in Andhra Pradesh and results are awaited. In the last 10 years, governments changed in both the Telugu states but bifurcation issues between the two states remained unresolved.
The Centre has appointed several committees including the Sheela Bhide committee but their efforts were in vain. The distribution of employees between the two states and the payment of electricity dues too have not been resolved.
Telangana was formed on June 2, 2014. At that time Hyderabad was made the joint capital of AP and TG for 10 years. The 10-year period comes to an end on June 2, 2024. Now Hyderabad is the capital of Telangana alone.
Even though Hyderabad was the joint capital for 10 years, in 2016, the TDP government headed by Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu shifted the AP secretariat and administrative offices to Amaravati from Hyderabad.
The capital of AP became a controversy between the TDP and the YSR Congress government. While the TDP government proposed Amaravati as the capital, the YSR Congress government proposed three capitals instead of a single capital. However, the TDP and YSRCP governments failed to construct a capital when they were in power. As a result, even after 10 years, Andhra Pradesh remains a state without a capital.