Chandrababu indignant over Centre's delay in financial assistance

AP CM Chandrababu Naidu is an unhappy and disappointed person. During the meeting of the Niti Aayog meeting today Naidu failed to catch the eye of the Prime Minister in spite of additional relations as an friendly ally and also the PM did not make any out of the announcement he awaited on the needs of the states like AP and Telangana.

Naidu has been hoping for an central assistance of over Rs.30,000 towards the budgetary decifit, new capital , cyclone Hudhud relief and also backward region development funds. But the PM and the Union Finance Minister did not say a word about the challenges of new states like AP and also defered any declarations.

It is common knowledge that the AP Government which plans to lay the foundation stone for New Capital by June 2015. is ancicipating huge grants in addition to the paltry Rs.5000 core announced in last budget by centre. Much to the shock of AP CM who is currently touring in New Delhi and the people of the state, Union Government has remained blind and indifferent to his pleas for more funds and the office of the Union finance ministry had bluntly said that all packages will be incorporated in the annual budget in next fortnight.

Besides the capital , assembly, High court and other infrastructureal projects, Naidu also wants the center to speed up projects like Smat cities, Metro Rails, Bullet trains and also Industrial corridors and Highway expansions in AP to meet the challenges of near future and keep the global investors interests.

Informing that a special status or package was out of question due to the financial crunch, Centre asked AP Government to come up with the list of key structures like Assembly, Secretariat and High Court so that it could finance them individually and separately without linking to special status etc.

This is another big setback to AP Government which wishes to built a World-class City which could cost over Rs.inspite of a revenue deficit of over Rs 16,000 crore. Neither Centre made atempts to bridge the Revenue Deficit nor Bothered to release fund anything more than Rs 1,000 crore for relief & rehabilitation of Hudhud cyclone.

Naidu is peeved that the PMO and the BJP were not doing justice to AP and also the TDP despite its sacrifices . He has given two cabinet posts to BJP, one Rajya Sabha seat to facilitate Nirmala Seetharaman, wife of Parakala Prabhakar, his Media Advisor. He is clearly annoyed that the NDA was not responding positively to the genuine needs of AP and instead was passing the buck in name of similar pleas by other states for special grants.