VIJAYAWADA: On Saturday social media platform Twitter turned into a place for a political slugfest. In a surprise development, both Jana Sena chief Mr Pawan Kalyan and opposition leader, YSRC chief Mr Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy took to Twitter one after the other on the issues related to Special Category Status and Special Package.
Both the leaders tried to be one up on each other to emerge as a champion of Special Category Status to Andhra Pradesh. In a direct attack on Chief Minister Mr N. Chandrababu Naidu, Opposition leader YSRC chief, Mr Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy had tweeted that Mr Naidu had sold AP’s interests. Meanwhile Mr Pawan Kalyan demanded the setting up of joint fact-finding committee and also announced the Joint Political Action Committee.
In a series of tweets in which he tagged Mr Naidu on Twitter, Mr. Reddy said, “SCS to AP was made a precondition to split the state, the same was assured on the floor of the Parliament by the then ruling and opposition parties alike. It was approved by the Union Cabinet in March 2014 and even orders for implementation were sent to the Planning Commission. Under what moral right did @ncbn sell AP’s interest by trading SCS for the so-called “special package”- details of which are unknown. Please stop this eyewash and explain your actions to the people of AP @ncbn.”
Mr Pawan Kalyan said, “The announced “Special Package” by the Centre was accepted by TDP then. Now people would like to know why the sudden realisation now that it is not working. When JSP had been saying all along with a few others that it is a regular “State Package” where the funds would have come anyhow according to devolution method as the state’s right.”
Mr Pawan further tweeted, “There is an urgent need for a Joint Fact-Finding Committee. JFC comprises of economists, financial experts, ex-public servants, academicians, scholars, socio-political leaders to probe into conflicting and contradictory statements of the State and the Centre. Joint Fact-Finding Committee (JFC) will objectively analyse AP Reorganisation Act promises without any personal, political or ideological bias. Based on that report political action will be decided by Joint Political Action Committee (JPAC).”
