Spl status to AP blocked by other states
VIJAYAWADA: Civil aviation minister and senior TDP leader P Ashok Gajapathi Raju has said observed that former prime minister Manmohan Singh had announced special category status to the state though such a provision was not made in the AP Reorganisation Act.
At an interactive meeting with mediapersons at Vijayawada Airport, he said, 'The elderly man had made several assurances and the special status was one of them. All MPs from the state, including myself, are asking the Union government for it but many states are opposing it,' he said.
The TDP leader said that post bifurcation, when special status was demanded for the state, Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa had opposed it, fearing all industries in Tamil Nadu would relocate to Andhra Pradesh whose chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu is a pro-active leader.
'The chief ministers of Jharkhand and Telangana are not in favour of special status to AP. O Panneerselvam, the new CM of Tamil Nadu, will continue the policy of his predecessor Jayalalithaa for obvious reasons,' he said.
The minister blamed the previous UPA regime at the Centre for the present financial crisis in Andhra Pradesh. He said those who had made promises are no longer there. 'Now, the present government has to translate those commitments into action. It is studying their economic implications,' he said.
News Posted: 6 February, 2015
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