Leaders of the Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) on Monday told the Bihar voters not to cast their vote in favour of the BJP candidates as the party leaders do not have the habit of keeping their poll promises.
"Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself has not kept the promise that he had made to residuary Andhra Pradesh during electioneering in the last Lok Sabha polls. During electineering, he had assured the voters of Andhra Pradesh that special category status and special package will be given to the State if the BJP-led government comes to power at the Centre. Now, the NDA is in power and the ruling party in the State, the TDP, is its alliance partner. But nothing has been done to the State till now," they explained to the voters addressing an election rally at Bankipur in Bihar where State Youth Congress president Kumar Ashish is in the race.
"Modi will give you water from Niagara Falls and soil (mitti) from the United Nations General Assembly instead of giving them the promised special package," APCC president N Raghuveera Reddy told the gathering.
Raghuveera, along with his team of senior party leaders campaigned during the Maha Gatbandhan in Bihar explaining how Modi had not kept his promise for Andhra Pradesh.
They even informed the voters that then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced on the floor of Parliament on granting special status to Andhra Pradesh.
“But, when Modi visited the State for Dussera to lay the foundation stone for our new capital, Amaravati, the people there were expecting that he would announce some more sops as the State is reeling under severe financial crisis. Leave alone making any fresh announcements, even the promises already made were not even mentioned in his speech," the Congress leaders remarked.
Modi has only rubbed salt on our wounds. We are shocked at the Prime Minister's silence,” they said and blasted Modi’s campaign slogan, ‘Bihar ki hogi tez raftaar,kendra-rajya mein ek sarkar’.
