I attribute the credit to AP for helping the NDA assume power: Amit Shah
Rajahmundry: BJP president Amit Shah on Sunday failed to give any assurance on the long-pending demand for special category status for the state.
He restricted himself to saying that the NDA government would execute the multi-purpose Polavaram irrigation project and set up a railway zone with headquarters in Visakhapatnam.
He was speaking at a huge public meeting at the Government Arts College ground here. His speech was translated by BJP leader D. Purandeswari
Mr Shah said that the NDA government had extended financial assistance worth about Rs 1.40 lakh crore to AP and listed out several schemes and projects.
He said, “If I go on listing out what the BJP-led NDA government has done for AP non-stop, it would take seven days to complete.”
Taking on the Congress, Mr Shah said, “I wonder why the Congress is finding fault with our regime. I challenge the Congress to explain what it has done for AP in the last 60 years. Congress leaders made the AP CMs clean their sandals. It was N.T. Rama Rao who addressed Telugu pride by setting up his own political party and grabbed power in the state. I promise you all that the BJP-led NDA regime led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi will protect your honour and there is no question of subjecting you to humiliation by any means as long as the NDA rules the country."
The BJP chief said, "Our party is getting strong by the day. Ours is the largest party in the world with a membership of 11 crore. After 30 years in Indian politics, a single political party like the BJP was given absolute majority to form government at the Centre. I attribute the credit to AP for helping the NDA assume power."
He asked the people in to strengthen the party to contest the next elections independently. He said the Polavaram project was declared as a national project and added that the Centre would take all responsibility to execute it. On allocation of funds, he said it was wrong to ask for the allocation of the entire project cost in one Budget.
He said, “I assure the people in AP that the NDA regime will extend all support to the state for implementation of welfare schemes including Polavaram, railway zone and others. I ask AP Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu not to get agitated on such issues. The Centre is ready to extend all help to AP until the next elections.”
