By issuing a preliminary notification for the creation of new districts, the Andhra Pradesh government ventured to implement a concept which no political dispensation had done after the combined A.P. came into existence way back in late 1956 with 23 districts. The bottomline is to have one revenue district for each of the 25 Lok Sabha constituencies.
In rehashing the boundaries, the present government headed by the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) has essentially stirred up a hornet’s nest, given the deep differences over the manner in which the existing boundaries were restructured, notwithstanding the justifiable claim that the exercise is aimed at facilitating better administration notwithstanding the likely political ramifications which are anybody’s guess.
