A few Telugu Desam Party leaders speaking up against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) cannot make the Central government grant special category status to Andhra Pradesh. The State Government should join hands with all Opposition parties and bring pressure on the Centre, said PCC vice-president Devineni Rajasekhar.
Addressing the media at the Andhra Ratna Bhavan here on Monday Mr. Rajasekhar said that unless the TDP made the two Union Cabinet Ministers-- Ashok Gajapathi Raju and Y.S. Chowdary-- to resign, the Central government would not be bothered about granting special status to the State.
He appealed to Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu to stop going away on “unproductive” foreign visits and talk to his own Cabinet colleagues to resolve the many problems the people of the state were facing. Mr Rajasekhar wondered as to why M. Venkaiah Naidu had become silent over the issue. Former MLA Malladi Vishnu criticised Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman for “indirectly” supporting the TN Government for not favouring the grant of special status to AP.
