The Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) has written to nearly 700 MPs about Special Category Status and other assurances mentioned in the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act – 2014 appealing to them to intervene.
Addressing a press conference here on Monday, Pradesh Congress Committee president N. Raghuveera Reddy said he wrote a letter to bring to the notice of the MPs the “wishes of five crore people of Andhra Pradesh with regard to the implementation of the Special Category Status and other promises made to Andhra Pradesh in Parliament on February 20, 2014.”
He said in the letter he mentioned that during bifurcation of the state of the erstwhile Andhra Pradesh, the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had given certain commitments to the residuary state of A.P. on behalf of the Government of India.
The promises and the commitments made in the Parliament were unanimously accepted by all the political parties and the then leaders of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, M. Venkaiah Naidu and Arun Jaitley.
UPA decision
The UPA government took the decision and also directed the Planning Commission to implement the decision to grant Special Category Status to A.P.
Even the NDA at the time of elections assured in their election manifesto that they would implement all the promises made in the Parliament. But unfortunately, after forming the government, they were not implementing any of the assurances or promises.
“Therefore we request your intervention on the above said promises during this budget session,” says the letter.
