The Navya Andhra Pradesh Special Category Status Sadana Samiti on Friday urged MPs from the state cutting across party-lines to resign enmasse to exert pressure on the Centre to confer the status on Andhra Pradesh.
The MPs from the state should stall Parliament to achieve the just demand of the state which had been divided in a most unjustified manner by the Centre leaving it with a huge revenue deficit and little resources to forge ahead in development said Samiti President V.Raja Rao at a round-table conference here. “Its high time leaders of political parties in the state came together to put a united fight to achieve the status,” said Local Election Watch president M. Nageswara Rao.
ABM College Principal T.S.S. Singh said it was unfortunate that the BJP which had extracted from then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh the status to Andhra Pradesh for 10 years instead of five years while supporting the State Reorganisation Bill, was now dilly-dallying on the issue in the wake of competing demands from other states.
Trouble for all
Students, farmers and state government employees in the state were in big trouble due to half-hearted implementation of the State Reorganisation Act, said Andhra Pradesh Teachers Federation leader A.Ammaiah.
The speakers also pressed for special funds for Prakasam district, which had been formed by merging the most backward parts of Kurnool, Guntur and Nellore districts.
‘Reconsider decision’
The samiti, an affiliate of the Prakasam district Rajadhani Sadana Samiti urged the State Government to reconsider its decision to locate the capital on the fertile farm lands in Thullur and instead build the capital in Prakasam district endowed with waste stretches of government waste land.
