Live
- Chanchalguda Jail Officials Say They Haven't Received Bail Papers Yet, Allu Arjun May Stay in Jail Tonight
- BJP leaders present evidence of illegal voters in Delhi, urge EC for swift action
- Exams will not be cancelled: BPSC chairman
- Nagesh Trophy: Karnataka, T.N win in Group A; Bihar, Rajasthan triumph in Group B
- YS Jagan condemns the arrest of Allu Arjun
- Economic and digital corridors to maritime connectivity, India and Italy building vision for future, says Italian Ambassador
- SMAT 2024: Patidar's heroics guide Madhya Pradesh to final after 13 years
- CCPA issues notices to 17 entities for violating direct selling rules
- Mamata expresses satisfaction over speedy conviction in minor girl rape-murder case
- Transparent Survey Process for Indiramma Housing Scheme Directed by District Collector
Spl status issue puts AP on boil
Spl status issue puts AP on boil. The issue of according special status category to Andhra Pradesh seems to be boiling into a major political issue which is causing great embarrassment to the ruling TDP and its ally, the BJP, in the state.
TDP, ally BJP go into damage-control mode
Hyderabad: The issue of according special status category to Andhra Pradesh seems to be boiling into a major political issue which is causing great embarrassment to the ruling TDP and its ally, the BJP, in the state.
.jpg)
With the political scenario hotting up in Andhra Pradesh, the Centre on Sunday sent Union minister Nirmala Seetaraman to mollify the ruffled feathers of the people. The Union minister took the line that what was stated in Parliament was only a legal position and that at no point of time did the government say that AP will not get special status.
She said it was a fact that the Centre had received a letter from AP Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu urging the Centre to grant special status as promised in Parliament by the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. She said not just AP but there are at least another six states which have made similar demand and hence the centre has to examine various possibilities before granting the special status to the residual state of AP.
The Centre was committed to confer special status on AP. However, it will take some more time to accord the status, she said, adding that the Centre had allocated Rs 500 crore for the construction of new capital city. She also was at pains to explain that centre would continue to help Andhra Pradesh and funds would flow in for various projects.
Turning down the criticism of the Opposition parties, particularly the Congress, which had been burning the effigies of the Centre and the YSRCP which blamed the TDP and Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu for having failed to get the promise implemented, the Union minister said the Opposition parties were groping in darkness now knowing how to survive in the state.
If the Congress had included the issue in the AP State Re-organisation Act things would have been different, she said.Meanwhile, Congress leader Undavalli Arun Kumar demanded that the state government should immediately come out of the NDA government as it had failed to honour its promise.
