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Centre to rescue AP
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After beating around the bush over the Special Status issue for Andhra Pradesh, the Central government had categorically admitted here on Tuesday that the word given to the people of Andhra Pradesh was easier than kept in this regard. However, it was making all efforts to find a way out of the imbroglio and would perhaps come out with a solution sooner.
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New Delhi: After beating around the bush over the Special Status issue for Andhra Pradesh, the Central government had categorically admitted here on Tuesday that the word given to the people of Andhra Pradesh was easier than kept in this regard. However, it was making all efforts to find a way out of the imbroglio and would perhaps come out with a solution sooner.With the issue generating much political heat in Andhra Pradesh with the rivals of the TDP resorting to public posturing demanding the former to bring pressure on the Centre, it had placed the central leadership of the BJP in a piquant situation. It was a promise made by the BJP leadership before the 2014 general elections as well repeated later on the floor of Parliament.
There was no way it could simply brush aside the demand all the while having the Telugu Desam as an ally and a partner in the Centre. It is also an ally of the TDP in the State and also in power. The TDP all said and done had adopted a studied silence over the matter only asserting now and then that it was pursuing the issue relentlessly.
Even as late as Monday, the AP Chief Minister's Media Advisor, asserted that the AP government was not ready to take a no in this regard though not with a confrontationist attitude. Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu took time off to talk to Home Minister Rajanth Singh and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and also Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday morning in anticipation of some business hours in the absence of the Opposition in Parliament.
Venkaiah Naidu told the Lok Sabha that they were finding it difficult to implement it since it was not part of the AP State Reorganisation Act but at the same time it was an assurance on by the government in Parliament and hence it was looking into the issue.
This strategy perhaps would pay off for the time being as he called a spade a spade in pointing out to the difficulties in according the Special Status to Andhra Pradesh in the immediacy. Today's word given in the House should come as a relief to the TDP which would now go on to counter the YSRCP and others that it could convince the Centre to attempt sorting out the hurdles in the way of the Special Status.
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