The NDA Government at the Centre is committed to deliver the benefits promised to Andhra Pradesh at the time of bifurcation and in fact AP has derived the most benefit from the Narendra Modi-led Government, BJP State president and Visakhapatnam MP K. Haribabu has said.
Refuting the charges leveled by the Congress party that the BJP and the TDP were backtracking on the provisions of the A.P. Reorganisation Act, he told the mediapersons here on Wednesday that an exercise on how to extend the benefits overcoming various hurdles involved was going on and there was no deadline for it.
The Union Government would also make good the revenue loss in 2014-15 caused due to bifurcation once the State Government came out with the final amount, he clarified.
In the very first Cabinet meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi had the Ordinance on areas facing submergence in the Polvaram project cleared and later passed the Bill on it, he said explaining how the NDA Government was committed to the development of the State.
Mr. Haribabu, however, warned against concentrating setting up of various offices of Central Government and other organisations in and around the new capital and repeat the mistake that led to the division of the State. Development should be decentralised and spread all over the 13 districts, he said.
Hails AAP
Mr. Haribabu hailed as “wonderful” the victory of AAP in Delhi and described it as an example of robust democracy. However, BJP’s performance was disappointing though its voter percentage merely slipped from 35 to 34 per cent.
Other parties like Congress, BSP, SP almost disappeared and the AAP was successful in getting that support while BJP did not increase its votes, he said. BJP city president P. V. Narayana Rao and State executive member M. Nagendra were present.
