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Naidu to take up special status issue with Modi
The Andhra Pradesh government has been is committed to get special status category for the state and Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu will again take up the issue with Prime Minister Narendra Modi when he would meet him on May 17, said Finance Minister Yanamala Ramakrishunudu.
Vijayawada: The Andhra Pradesh government has been is committed to get special status category for the state and Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu will again take up the issue with Prime Minister Narendra Modi when he would meet him on May 17, said Finance Minister Yanamala Ramakrishunudu.
He also stated that the statement of accounts of what the state had received from the Centre and what it had spent were open for any verification and hence there was no need for a white paper as was being demanded by some parties.
Talking to media a day after Narendranath Singh stated that the AP Chief Minister had not particularly asked for the special status, Ramakrishnudu said the BJP should know that the state Assembly had passed unanimous resolutions twice seeking special category status and the BJP members, including the ministers, were part of it.
Naidu had also repeatedly requested the Prime Minister and other Union Ministers to accord special status during his visits to New Delhi in the past two years, Ramakrishnudu said, adding that the government had always wanted the Centre to accord special status to the state.
This being the situation, he wondered how the BJP leaders claim that the Chief Minister had not asked for it. He further said that some parties were trying to create differences between TDP and BJP using the issue of special status.
