Venkaiah shrugs off Pawan Kalyan remarks over special category status to AP

Hyderabad: Union minister M. Venkaiah Naidu on Saturday said he did not care for the criticism either by actor and Jana Sena chief Pawan Kalyan or others over the Centre denying special category status to the state of Andhra Pradesh.

Replying to questions by mediapersons at a private function here on the remarks made by Pawan Kalyan at his Kakanida rally, Mr Venkaiah Naidu said he did not want to reply to comments by his critics and that he did not care for such comments made by others..

“Let them say whatever they want against me, there is a freedom of expression. I will go ahead with and do whatever I feel is right for the development of Andhra Pradesh though I am not representing it,” the Union minister said. He said a lot of exercise was done before announcing the special financial measure for AP that was subjected to immense loss due to bifurcation.