Chandrababu responsible for AP’s raw deal in budget

Squarely blaming Chandrababu Naidu for sacrificing state interests for personal gains, YSR Congress has said that Andhra Pradesh has got a raw deal in the Union Budget due to the indifference of state.

Speaking to reporters here on Friday, party senior leader Botsa Satyanarayana said, ‘Chadrababu Naidu has been shying away from mounting pressure on the coalition partner at the Centre only to save his skin for the various corruption charges and cash for vote case while as a responsible opposition party we have been persistently raising the issues of Special Category Status (SCS), Railway Zone for Vizag and other issues.

Not in a single budget did the State Government get things done in favour of the state as it has different and personal agenda to cover up the corruption charges but has no voice to speak about the state interests.

‘When we were raising the issues, the State was blaming us for trying to create a wedge with the Centre but at the end of the day no tangible results had come about.’

Even before the Centre could give its reaction, Chandrababu Naidu went on record to tell people that SCS was not a wonder drug and had given a leeway for the Centre to shift the focus and the Chief Minister had brought in the issue of Special Package which was not there in the State Reorganisation Act.

Declining what was in the Act and trying to get what was not there in it for personal gains has been the habit of Chandrababu Naidu right from Polavaram and now as if realisation has dawned on him belatedly, he started telling that the state did not get its due share.

‘These theatrics should be stopped. As an opposition party we held dharnas and protests on various counts and the state failed to get even a single issue resolved as it has lost the bargaining power due to the other preferences like placing personal interests ahead of state welfare which were responsible for the raw deal to the state.

The two union ministers, the chief minister had boasted would do all that is needed for the state which has come to a naught,’ he said adding that things would only change with the change of guard in the next year elections.