Overview
- Agriculture minister Tummala Nageswara Rao wrote to Union home minister Amit Shah and to the Andhra Pradesh and Telangana chief ministers seeking a demerger on November 6.
- The appeal names five gram panchayats — Yatapaka, Kannaigudem, Pichukalapadu, Purushothapatnam and Gundala — which together comprise 17 revenue villages.
- Rao says the 2014 split left the habitations as an enclave reliant on Bhadrachalam for health, education and transport, causing frequent interstate checks and delays.
- He cites law-and-order coordination difficulties in a Left-Wing Extremism–affected belt due to divided jurisdiction.
- The letter highlights that the Bhadrachalam temple is in Telangana while several related temple lands lie in Purushothapatnam, creating administrative complications, and notes that formal responses are pending.