: The Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee has asked Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu to raise the Special Category Status assured by the Central government to the State, during the meeting of the National Development Council slated in New Delhi on Saturday.
In a letter addressed to the Chief Minister, APCC president N. Raghuveera Reddy lamented that the Centre did not initiate any steps in the direction of giving the coveted status to the State in the last two years. It was unfortunate that the Centre had failed to act in spite of the fact that the ruling Telugu Desam Party was an ally of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
“The Centre’s indifference in according SCS despite the unanimous resolutions passed by the State legislature twice is tantamount to insulting the Telugu people,” he said. Mr. Raghuveera Reddy said the Congress had launched a series of agitations to highlight the demand for SCS.
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Congress president Sonia Gandhi had demanded that the Centre grant the status to AP on the floor of Parliament while a meeting of the Chief Ministers of the Congress-ruled states had passed a unanimous resolution supporting SCS.