By seeing recent developments in Janasena party and analyzing Pawan Kalyan’s latest critical comments on special category status, people are wondering whether he is also following YSRCP strategy. If it is so, it would be a mistake.

YSRCP always says their party is fighting for special category status for last 4 years. They also say, “It is because of Chandrababu Naidu, union government is not granting special category status to Andhra Pradesh. So, Chandrababu Naidu is the root cause for all the evils that are happening in the state.” Now it seems Pawan Kalyan also following their strategy. Though Pawan Kalyan is criticizing Modi so often, yesterday he stated “It is because of TDP and YSRCP, Andhra Pradesh is facing all the problems.” To be frank, everybody in the state knows that, as BJP did not grant special category status to Andhra Pradesh and they did not implement any special package to the state, AP is pushed into revenue deficit and scarcity of funds. It is because of this, Andhra Pradesh Government could not take up any development activities. Moreover when compared to Hyderabad no city in Andhra Pradesh has proper infrastructure. So it is difficult to attract industries to Andhra Pradesh. But, had special category status been granted to Andhra Pradesh along with some industrial incentives, definitely there would not have been revenue deficit in AP and also it would have been easy to attract Industries to the state. So, it is very clear that union government’s decision of not granting special category status or industrial incentives to the state is actually impacting Andhra Pradesh and pushing it into a deficit and underdeveloped state

So irrespective of parties and people who are making the statement that TDP or YSRCP are the root cause of all evils in Andhra Pradesh, it is definitely a wrong statement. Of course, there might be failures from AP state government or there might be issues that are in the purview of state government and yet it could not resolve them. But the fact remains this: Biggest root cause that damaged prospects of Andhra Pradesh is bifurcation and not getting special category status. For this, either Congress or BJP are responsible. So far whatever Pawan Kalyan stated, people are completely believing the statements, because he has the track record of giving genuine statements. But if he also joins other political leaders and give political statements like this, definitely he will also become like any other political leader and his statements also will lose the believability. Hope Pawan understands this.