AP will be best state by 19: Amit

All promises made in Reorganisation Act will be met, BJP chief tells Babu

Rajahmundry: The massive rally at Rajamahendravaram on Sunday by BJP national president Amit Shah was twin-edged weapon. While assuring the AP government that the BJP-led NDA government would fulfill all the promises made in the Reorganization Act, he gave a call to the state unit to emerge as a force to be reckoned with by 2019.

Addressing a mammoth gathering at the Arts college grounds here, Amit Shah said that he would like to assure Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu that by the time they go in for next general election, AP would see a never before kind of development. In the same breadth, he asked the rank and file of the state BJP to strengthen its base from booth level.

The saffron flag should flutter everywhere in the state. The rank and file should work to ensure that the Congress remains consigned to dustbin by the next general election in 2019. Taking on the Opposition criticism that the NDA government had done nothing for the truncated state, the BJP national president reeled out a list of projects and educational institutes that were sanctioned to the state since June 2014 and challenged the Congress to come out with facts and figures of what they had done for the development of AP in the last 60 years.

However, Shah did not refer either to the issue of special category status to the state or a special package. He said that so far the Centre had given Rs 1.40 lakh crore worth of the projects to the state. Referring to the Polavaram project, Shah said the Centre would do all that was necessary to complete the project by 2019. He also promised that every village in AP would get three-phase uninterrupted power by 2019.

“What the Congress had done during the last 60 years was to insult the Telugus. The Congress chief ministers of the state were asked to carry chappals of the Prime Minister and were offloaded from aircraft. It was this attitude of the Congress which forced NTR to come into active politics to protect the Telugu pride,” Shah said.

“As long as the Modi government was in power it will do its best to enhance the prestige of Andhra Pradesh,” he added. The BJP leader said his party would never forget AP which had given 17 out of 25 Lok Sabha seats to it and helped in forming the government at the Centre.

Shah also lashed out at Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi for supporting the anti-national slogans and happenings in the Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi. He said the efforts were being made to dress up seditious anti-national outbursts. He sought to know if Rahul Gandhi supported anti-national slogans. Shah remarked that in the garb of free expression anti-national sentiments were being aired.

What Nda has done

• Sanctioned Rs 65,000 crore for national highways
• Rs 1,500 crore for national waterways.
• 1.93 lakh houses under PM Awas Yojana
• Included many cities in Amrut scheme
• Selected Kakinada and Vizag as smart cities
• Sanctioned Rs 1,500 crore for Amaravati
• Rs 3,000 crore for proposed KRIBHCO
• Selected Nellore for Kamadhenu Breeding Centre
• Rs 22,000 crore to set up Industrial Park
• Rs 3,266 crore for missile manufacturing unit
• Rs 25,000 crore for HPCL refinery in Vizag
• AIIMS at Mangalagiri
• Tribal University in Vizianagaram
• Central University in Anantapur
• Petroleum University in Vizag