Senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha member K V P Ramachandra Rao does not want to spare Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu, even though his party’s central leadership is going soft on the latter.
During the public meeting addressed at Tirupati last week, Congress president Rahul Gandhi and all the other party leaders from the state did not utter a word against Naidu while criticising the Narendra Modi government on going back on the promise of special category status to Andhra Pradesh.
But only KVP made a reference to the TDP president and criticised the latter for not taking up the special category status issue with the Centre in the last four years.
On Monday, too, KVP wrote a letter to the Prime Minister, attacking him for the the injustice meted out to the State by the Central government for the last five years, in the context of Modi’s proposed visit to Visakhapatnam on March 1.
“The people of State are witnessing the true colours of BJP and its allied party for five years in denying them the special category status which was assured and promised to them by the Centre by inventing frivolous and fictitious reasons,” he said, without of course naming the TDP directly.
KVP said the people of the state had well understood the opportunistic politics being played by the BJP and it’s once upon a time allied party to gain once again in general elections and to continue he power without considering their sentiments and wellbeing.
The Congress MP found fault with the Centre and the TDP for ignoring several other promises made in the AP Reorganization Act 2014, such as separate railway zone for Visakhapatnam, release of adequate funds for Polavaram project, special economic package for Rayalaseema and Uttarandhra districts, Dugarajapatnam port, Kadapa steel plant, funding for Amaravati capital, bridging of resource gap, lack of funds for higher educational institutions, green field oil refinery and petro-chemical complex at Kakinada etc.
He demanded that Modi enter Andhra Pradesh only after fulfilling all the promises made in the AP Reorganisation Act.
