The heavy loss in Delhi Assembly elections is a good lesson for the BJP and the Central Government, APCC president N. Raghuveera Reddy said here on Tuesday. He also claimed that the Telugu people in Delhi, who are in large number, voted against BJP.
They opposed BJP since they were not happy with the Centre backtracking on the sanction of the special package/status to Andhra Pradesh and other benefits to be provided under the AP State Reorganisation Act. The Congress party's one crore signature campaign in AP on the issue has influenced them, he claimed.
When asked about a comment on Congress party's abysmal performance in Delhi, Mr. Raghuveera Reddy said the party would revive soon.
Salary hike to State employees
On AP Government announcing 47 per cent fitment to the State Government employees, he expressed his doubt if Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu going by his inability to implement loan waiver and other promises, would do this. But the Government must give to the employees what it has promised, he said.
Earlier, Mr. Raghuveera Reddy, senior Congress leaders and former Ministers like Botcha Satyanarayana, AICC leader Kuntia, Dronamraju Srinivasa Rao, P. Balaraju, C. Ramachandraiah, K. Bapiraju, Vatti Vasantha Kumar, Kondru Murali, Satish Varma, Killi Kruparani, Butchi Maheswara Rao, city Congress president Behera Bhaskara Rao and other leaders launched the one crore signature campaign in the city at a meeting organised near the Gandhiji statue opposite GVMC main office. A large number of women attended.
The speakers demanded the Centre and State to implement all the provisions under the State Reorganisation Act and assured the people of fight by the Congress party till AP received all the benefits it has been promised during bifurcation. The APCC would meet the Prime Minister on February 23 with the one crore signatures.
