Andhra Pradesh HRD Minister Ganta Srinivas Rao on Wednesday appealed to Telangana Government to heed the advice of Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan to go by the letter and spirit of AP Reorganisation Act and initiate steps for conducting common EAMCET exam this year.

Addressing a press conference at the Secretariat here, he said if the TS government accepts the suggestion of the Governor, the education secretaries of both the governments could meet and work out the modalities and subsequently he and Telangana Education Minister G.Jagadish Reddy could meet and fine tune the details. In the interest of the students’ future, AP government was willing to bear insults, he observed.

Mr. Rao took exception to the remarks of Mr.Jagadish Reddy that AP Government was acting in an uncivilised manner and pointed out that every time he took the initiative and spoke to his Telangana counterpart, keeping the interests of students from both the States. AP government was showing restraint but the Telangana government was creating controversy each time, he added.

With both the governments not seeing eye-to-eye on the issue of conducting common EAMCET test, Mr. Narasimhan advised AP HRD Minister Ganta Srinivasa Rao and Telangana Education Minister Jagadish Reddy when they called on him separately on Tuesday to follow the rule book and go by the provisions of the AP Reorganisation Act.