Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) president N. Raghuveera Reddy will launch a signature campaign at Polavaram in West Godavari district on Feb. 6 seeking the NDA government to grant special status to the State in line with the provisions of the Andhra Pradesh State Reorganisation Act. According to West Godavari District Congress Committee (DCC) president Md. Saffi Ulla Baig, Mr. Reddy will formally set the tone for the campaign by signing himself on a petition.
He said the party would collect one crore signatures from different sections of people from across the State in support of the demand for extending all the safeguards provided in the State Reogranisation Act for the new State.
It was mandatory for any incumbent government at the Centre to implement the Act, passed by the UPA government, in letter and spirit. Later, the papers bearing signatures would be submitted to Congress president Sonia Gandhi with a request to raise the issue in Parliament in the upcoming session, he added..
Special Correspondent in Visakhapatnam adds: Addressing party workers here, PCC general secretary Dronamraju Srinivasa Rao exhorted them to work hard to make the programme scheduled to be taken up on February 10 a success.
The programme would be launched by the City Congress on February 7, City Congress president Behera Bhaskara Rao said. DCC president P. Balaraju, district incharge S.N. Raju, and constituency in-charge Gunturu Bharati were present.
