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Congress MPs demand special status
Three Rajya Sabha MPs from Congress party, KVP Ramachandra Rao, JD Seelam and T Subbarami Reddy, here on Thursday demanded special category status for Andhra Pradesh as promised in the Parliament. Talking to mediapersons here on Thursday they said that the APCC would be holding a three day demonstration at Jantar Mantar to seek the special category status for the State.
New Delhi: Three Rajya Sabha MPs from Congress party, KVP Ramachandra Rao, JD Seelam and T Subbarami Reddy, here on Thursday demanded special category status for Andhra Pradesh as promised in the Parliament. Talking to media persons here on Thursday they said that the APCC would be holding a three-day demonstration at Jantar Mantar to seek the special category status for the State.
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Referring to the promise made by the then BJP leaders - and who are in the government now - during the debate on bifurcation of the State in the Parliament, they pointed out that the BJP leadership had sought a 10-year-long special status for the State. Recalling the speeches of the then Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi, they said, “AP deserved the status as it was deprived of even the capital after bifurcation.”
“The Union Ministers today were taking shelter behind the provisions in denying the status to AP, they said urging the Government to keep its word. The present Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, had promised the special status if elected to power during his election campaign in the State.
The promise made to the people of AP standing at the lotus feet of Lord Venkateswara in Tirupati should be kept come what may. Instead Modi had given a handful of soil and a glassful of water to Chandrababu Naidu during the laying of the foundation stone for Amaravati. What kind of a justice is that?" they asked.
Neither the TDP nor its chief Naidu were keen in securing the status now for their own reasons, they said asking Naidu to justify his "criminal silence" in this regard. Referring to the dharna, they said that about 300 Congress leaders would be coming to New Delhi to attend the Dharna here in a train from Visakhapatnam under the leadership of APCC president, N Raghuveera Reddy.
“The delegation would be meeting the President, Vice-President, leaders of Opposition apart from Congress leadership. Rahul Gandhi would be addressing them at the AICC on March 16,” they added.
