Lok Satta Party national council member Katari Srinivasa Rao said on Monday both the BJP and the TDP were trying to mislead the public on the special category status promised to Andhra Pradesh.
He told reporters here that Union Urban Development Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu, who had insisted on extending the special category status promised by the UPA-II Government in the Rajya Sabha last year to 10 years, was now expressing reservations over implementing it.
Instead of keeping the pre-poll promises, he was talking about amending A.P. Reorganisation Act. “At that time itself they (LSP) had sought special development plan for the new State as they believed that special category status could be granted only for the hilly States in the northeast region.
The LSP leader said that contrary to his pre-poll promises, Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu went back on loan waiver for farmers and self-help group women. The truncated loan waiver scheme launched by Mr. Naidu after so much deliberation had only benefited 300 farmers so far, he pointed out. He also strongly opposed the land pooling scheme launched for acquisition of fertile lands for building capital.
Coming down heavily on the State Government, he said that the Government was planning to open 14 more distilleries so as to make people regular drunkard thereby increasing revenue.
Different tags were being given to describe Viskhapatnam as smart city and world-class city but even after completion of the tenure three years ago, elections to the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation had not been conducted on some plea or the other.
He said they would wait for completion of one year in office by the TDP Government and later hold public courts.
