Cong struggle for Special Status to AP
SRIKAKULAM: In tune with the spirit of 'Visakha ukku, Andhrula hakku', the Congress party would launch an unrelenting struggle till special category status was conferred on the truncated Andhra Pradesh, announced Pradesh Congress committee president N Raghuveeera Reddy.
He was the chief guest at the one crore signature campaign held at Seven-Roads Junction here. On the occasion, Raghuveera addressed a public meeting at the junction, during which he exhorted partymen to go ahead with the slogan 'special status is the right of Andhra Pradesh'.
Though the then UPA-II government announced the special status to AP, the new BJP government at the Centre is dragging its feet in implementing it, the PCC chief said and demanded an explanation for the delay.
'Is it because chief minister Chandrababu Naidu was not able to speak to Prime Minister Narendra Modi? thus humiliating Andhras,' Raghuveera questioned. The chief minister is deceiving people when he claims that he was sure of getting funds, while the BJP said that there was no special status. Taking potshots at the CM, the PCC chief said that Chandrababu was afraid of Modi.
The sanction of only `50 crore to the most backward district of Srikakulam was an insult to its people, Raghuveera stated and claimed that the Congress' signature campaign prompted the Modi government to sanction `850 crore to the state.
Former PCC president Botcha Satyanarayana, former ministers K Murali, Kruparani, Vizag DCC president Balaraju, Kanumuri Bapiraju, AICC secretary RC Kuntiya were present among other leaders.
News Posted: 10 February, 2015
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