Telugu Desam Party president and AP Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu had claimed to be a close friend of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and hence he would get more funds from the Centre; but the Modi government has so far been very cold to Naidu’s gestures.
This was pointed out by YSR Congress party on Saturday. Castigating the TDP government for not raising the issues regarding the assurances given by the Centre to Andhra Pradesh post bifurcation, YSR Congress party spokesperson Vasireddy Padma sought to know why Chandrababu Naidu was mum on the share the state has to receive after enacting the AP State Reorganisation Act.
“Instead of catching the Centre by its scurf and getting clearances to the promises given by the Prime Minister in the Parliament, TDP government is trying to search ways and means to impose more taxes and pooling up finances in various forms bypassing the due share the state has to get. Why is Naidu silent and not raising the issue of special status to the new state, building of capital city and other sops which were billed as the responsibility of the Centre,” Padma told reporters.
When the Centre has assured that it will take the responsibility in the building of the new state capital, Chandrababu Naidu seems to be at a loss for words when the Union Budget has no mention of the capital issue or the Polavaram project funding apart from the five-year special status to the 13 districts and he has never raised his voice on these crucial issues.
“Why is the State Government silent and is not taking the up the issue with the Centre, though TDP is a coalition partner of the NDA,” she said.
