Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Friday described the protests in Seema-Andhra region against bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh as quite natural, saying wherever a new State is carved out, such feelings are bound to come.
“We will take them into confidence. We will try our level best. After all, wherever there is bifurcation of any State, such feelings are there. It is natural. No one can avoid these. But we have to console them. We will try to console them,” said Shinde. He also ruled out the possibility of creating any more States in the country. The Home Minister dismissed the suggestion that the Naxal problem may increase in the new State Telangana once it comes into existence. “The Naxal problem is there. But Andhra Pradesh is one State where we have done excellent work in curbing Naxalism. I am quite confident that even after formation of Telangana, they will completely cut down the activities of Naxalites,” he said.