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TS, AP on fund hunt in Delhi
The hunt for funds has reached new heights between the two squabbling siblings of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh with neither willing to give a room for complacency.
New Delhi: The hunt for funds has reached new heights between the two squabbling siblings of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh with neither willing to give a room for complacency. Both the States have been seeking funds - regular, additional, special, calamity, reserve - and the Ministers and MPs of the two states are trooping in and out of the Ministers' chambers of Shastri Bhavan, Nirman Bhavan, Shram Shakti Bhavan...you name it.
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The spate of complaints against each other is continuing and yet the fund hunt has begun in right earnest. On the one hand, N Chandrababu Naidu, AP Chief Minister, has instructed his Ministers and officials to apply pressure on the Centre in extracting funds sought by his government, while on the other, the Telangana State Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, made it a point to turn the heat on in his own way in a low key operation publicity-wise.
It may be recalled here that complementing these efforts, the wards of both the Chief Ministers, N Lokesh and K T Rama Rao (the latter is a Minister in his father's cabinet), are touring the United States to attract investments for their respective states. Both have lined up a series of meetings with the industry captains on foreign shores. Back home, K Chandrashekar Rao, in a targeted approach, zeroed in on the Union Water Resources Ministry to take forward Mission Kakatiya.
The TDP raised concerns about the "delay in completion of Polavaram Project" and managed to extract a promise on its timely construction. The TRS demanded that the Pranahita-Chevella be undertaken as a national project along with other pending projects.
To top it, his daughter and Nizamabad MP K Kavita set a record of sorts by dashing off 11 letters to the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, on a single day seeking various developmental programmes and funds for her constituency and the State.
The TDP’s effort was aided by AP Student JAC and AP Intellectual Forum members who confronted the Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu with the demand for Special Status. In the same breath, the TDP MPs’ led by their Ministers of State, Y S Chowdary and P Ashok Gajapati Raju, met the Prime Minister and the Home Minister advancing similar causes.
By W Chandrakanth
