Following a decision by the Telangana Government to rename Potti Sriramulu Telugu University after Suravaram Pratap Reddy post-bifurcation, the Andhra Pradesh Government should take all steps to set up the university at Rajahmundry, Lok Nayak Foundation chairman and former MP Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad has urged the Chief Minister.

The three peethams of the university at Rajahmundry, Srisailam and Kuchipudi should be brought under the new university, he told reporters here on Monday.

The Andhra Pradesh Government should act promptly and take a decision immediately and establish the new university at Rajahmundry as land and other infrastructure was available, he said.

The assets should be shared in 58:42 ratio like all the assets under the Tenth Schedule, he said. The Chief Secretaries and Principal Secretaries of Higher Education should hold a meeting in view of the urgency of the situation. Students from Telangana reportedly refused to work under guides from Andhra Pradesh and ghearoed the Vice-Chancellor, he said.

The valuable ‘talapatra grandhas’ should be given to the respective States depending upon the origin of the writers and digital copies of the other books should be shared, he suggested.

He spoke to HRD Minister Ganta Srinivasa Rao on the issue and he assured him that all possible steps would be taken. Mr. Lakshmi Prasad said if any injustice was done to students and faculty a state-wide agitation would be launched.