HYDERABAD: A day ahead of the pronouncement of judgment by the Supreme Court on common admissions to professional colleges in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, Andhra Pradesh deputy chief ministers KE Krishna Murthy and Nimmakayala Chinna Rajappa lodged a complaint with governor ESL Narasimhan on Sunday against the Telangana government’s decision to constitute its own state council of higher education. Exactly 24 hours after Naidu-KCR camaraderie, the two deputy chief ministers of AP called on the governor at Raj Bhavan here only to submit to him a letter protesting against formation of Telangana Higher Education Council. Emerging from the meeting, both Krishna Murthy and Rajappa flayed the TS government for separating from the AP Higher Education Council. The duo wanted to know what had prompted the TS government to hurriedly constitute a separate higher education council for the new state even before the judgment of the apex court. “Though we have been time and again requesting the TS government to come for talks with us to resolve the issue amicably, the TS government is adopting a beleaguered stance and is trying to annoy the AP government,” they lambasted. Chinna Rajappa said that Section 95 of the AP Reorganisation Act-2014 prescribed common admissions to all professional colleges in both the states for a period of 10 years and the process would be looked after only by the AP State Council for Higher Education. But, by setting up a separate higher education council for Telangana, the TS government violated the provisions of Reorganisation Act, he contended. “This action of the Telangana government will adversely impact the future of lakhs of students belonging to both TS and AP,” he said and argued that if the admission process was conducted separately for the professional colleges in the two states, then SC/ST students in one state would have to take admission in the neighbouring state as ‘non-local students’. This would make them lose their reservation, he pointed out. Krishna Murthy said that though the Telangana government was claiming to have brought out the GO to set up separate Higher Education Council for the TS under dire circumstances, one did not know the exact reasons for this. The two deputy chief ministers, in their letter, told the governor that GO Ms No. 5 (issued for constituting the Telangana Higher Education Council) was illegal. “The TS government’s decision is detrimental to the interests of innocent students whose academic schedule and future education prospects will be affected for no fault of theirs,” they said. They made it clear that the AP government would abide by whatever verdict the Supreme Court delivered on the issue of holding common admissions for professional colleges in both the states.