TDP MPs too will resign to pressurise Centre
Jagan threw all Reorganisation promises to winds
Harmed AP’s both eyes – Polavaram and Amaravati
AMARAVATI: TDP National President and former Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu on Saturday demanded that Chief Minister Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy should make all his party MPs resign in order to bring pressure on the Central Government to confer the Special Status on Andhra Pradesh.
Naidu said the TDP MPs would also resign and join the fight for achieving all the major Reorganisation promises like Special Status, Polavaram and Vizag railway zone. It was CM Jagan Reddy who promised before the 2019 election that if elected, his regime would bend the necks of the Centre and that his party MPs would resign if necessary to achieve Special Status.
Addressing a press conference here, the TDP chief said the time has come for the Chief Minister to decide whether to fight for the bifurcation promises or not. The Central Government has said in the Parliament that Special Status was a closed chapter. The Union Minister said in the House that the railway zone would not be granted for Vizag. On the other hand, the Vizag Steel Plant was being privatised with total disregard for the people’s sentiments.
Naidu recalled how the TDP Union Ministers resigned during its regime in order to bring pressure on the Centre for Special Status. The then BJP Government at the Centre also had majority on its own at that time. As of now, they were dependent on support in the Rajya Sabha. Jagan Reddy and YCP MPs should explain what they had achieved for the State in the past two and half years.
Naidu showed videos and reminded CM Jagan how he, in his pre-election speeches, described Special Status as the panacea for all the problems of Andhra Pradesh. It would help in bringing jobs for all in the State. Even Ongole would develop like Hyderabad city. Immediately after winning the election, Jagan Reddy took a U-turn and said that his party would just keep requesting the Centre for Special Status but not bring pressure.
The TDP chief asserted that many promises were made for AP during and after reorganisation only to ensure that it would develop on a par with other States. It was mainly because the fully-developed Hyderabad Capital was given to Telangana while AP was left with very limited resources. The TDP regime acted promptly and got the required mandals in Telangana merged with AP for achieving Polavaram. Whereas, the YSRCP Government failed miserably in achieving every single promise of reorganisation.
Chandrababu Naidu said CM Jagan Reddy had no right to rule the State any more considering how he was keeping silent on major promises like Special Status, railway zone, etc. The CM has betrayed and cheated the young generation by destroying their job opportunities in all sectors. The YCP was speaking about Vizag Capital as if it had so much love. But, it was doing nothing to get the railway zone and to prevent the privatisation of the steel plant.
Condemning the YSRCP’s ‘failed promises’, Naidu said Amaravati and Polavaram stood out as the two eyes of AP for steering its future all-round growth and development. The inefficient and short-sighted Jagan regime had hurt both these eyes and brought the State development to a grinding halt. In the name of re-tendering and reverse tendering, abnormal delays were caused in Polavaram works. Who would take responsibility if the project cost would rise to Rs. 1 lakh crore in future?
The TDP chief said the previous regime put Polavaram on fast track and completed 70 percent of the work by spending Rs. 11,537 Cr in five years. Now, the YSRCP regime’s failures became a curse for the project. The Centre has reduced the project cost from Rs. 55,000 Cr to Rs. 47,700 Cr. Moreover, Jagan caused AP to lose its rights on projects. The Central permission would have to be taken even for digging a small canal on all projects including Krishna and Godavarai rivers.
Naidu said the YSRCP Government lost public trust and confidence in just two and half years. To counter the rising public resentment, the YCP regime was playing a cheap diversionary game by filing false cases against the TDP leaders and by dividing people along caste, regional and religious lines.
