Vijayawada: During an all-party and all-associations’ meeting held on Saturday, Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu made some mildly inflammatory comments. He said the government will form a two-layered organisation in which all like-minded associations, organisations, unions and political parties will take part in to fight with the Centre to achieve Special Category Status and also for the implementation of the provisions in the AP Reorganisation Act.
Mr Naidu chaired the all-party and all-associations’ meeting that was held on Saturday to discuss his recent trip to Delhi as part of the effort to pressurise the Centre to grant the Special Category Status. YSRC, BJP, Jana Sena, Left parties and the Congress had decided to abstain from the meeting.
BJP floor leader in AP Assembly, P. Vishnukumar Raju, wrote to Mr Naidu saying that his party would not attend the meeting and also accused him of taking a completely different stand for political reasons. “The organisation will have two layers or committees. One will be an organising committee and the other will be a coordination committee. The organisation will be fo-rmed soon and the committees will finalise a way forward to deal with the Centre.
“I appeal to all the unions, organisations, associations and political parties to be a part of this organisation. Our only agenda is Andhra’s future. Si-nce we have a year’s time for the polls, we need to st-rategise accordingly to mai-ntain and sustain the mom-entum until then,” Mr Naidu said.
The Chief Minister also said that some political parties are puppets in the han-ds of the BJP, in the same manner that many Indians supported the British during the freedom struggle. He wondered why the Oppos-ition leader Y.S. Jagan Mohan Redy was targeting him instead of talking anything against Mr Modi who denied the Special Category Status to the state.
Former minister and convener of Uttarandhra Char-cha Vedika Konatala Rama-krishna, who also took part in the meeting, suggested that the government should also combat the Centre through legal means.
He also suggested that the TD government should reach out to Opposition parties like YSRC and put aside differences to fight for a common cause.
