The AP Assembly began a discussion on the Modi government’s injustice done to the State in the past four and half years. But BJP MLA Vishnukumar Raju asserted that the Centre had done a lot for the development of the newly created AP state by giving funds for Central institutions and so on. He tried to list out various institutions and the funds given for them. This had enraged and made AP CM Chandrababu Naidu greatly angry.

CBN launched a scathing attack on the BJP saying there is no choice for the Centre but to set up the central institutions as per the bifurcation act. That is the rightful claim of the AP people who have been given so many promises at the time of separate statehood. This took the BJP and the TDP MLAs by surprise. Naidu went on asking whether it would be proper to subject the new state to political harassment.

CBN also passed serious comments saying leaders like Vishnukumar Raju have no right to continue as the people’s representatives because of their unwillingness to fight for the people’s cause. Naidu asked why the Centre is giving more preference to Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and other states. Why not Andhra Pradesh? He dared the BJP to arrest the TDP leaders for their justified struggle.

G.Ravikiran