Special Status Has To Be Sanctioned

• Only YSRCP is fighting for special status
• TDP is only pretending having no other choice
• People shall not forgive Babu if special status is not given
• The centre has to keep the promises made in the parliament
• YSRCP MPs demand for sanction of special status

New Delhi: YSRCP MP and parliamentary party leader Mekapati Rajamohan Reddy declared that special category status was the right of people of AP. He stated that the centre had the responsibility to realise the promise made in the parliament at the time of bifurcation. He also remarked that the state Government had the responsibility of achieving special status for its people. He acclaimed the leader of opposition of AP and YSRCP president YS Jagan for relentlessly fighting for special status.

Mekapati mentioned how industrial and employment sectors would be developed with the grant of special category status. He reminded how students and their parents were desperately hoping for its sanction, citing the Yuvabheri programme held at Nellore as an illustration. He reminded how PM Narendra Modi had mentioned many times during canvassing that special status would be given for 10 years to AP and suggested that it was not justified for a PM to deceive people. He cautioned that people would not forgive Chandrababu if status was not given.

With no other choice…

YSRCP MP Vara Prasad remarked that there would be no chance of sanction of special status, if not for the struggles, dharnas and agitations of YSR Congress Party. He specified that TDP had to finally speak up only due to YSRCP’s forcing. He reminded how YSRCP had been fighting from the beginning for the cause. He demanded that special status should be immediately sanctioned for the benefit of the people of the state.

Looking for lame excuses is not right

MP Butta Renuka condemned the indifference shown by the central and the state Governments in spite of YSRCP’s struggles within the state and at New Delhi. She criticised the centre for not responding in the matter in spite of all the efforts put forth by YSRCP MPs since 5 days in the parliament. She reminded how the state had been split into two against the wishes of the people. Now with all the reasons to sanction the status to the state, the Government was just looking for lame excuses, she complained. She commented that the Government’s stand was not being made clear. Renuka questioned how the rules had never objected the division of the state, but were objecting sanction of the status. She stated that all they were asking was only to implement the promises made in the parliament to the state at the time of bifurcation. She reiterated the importance of special status to do justice to AP.