Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu is planning to go hard against Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the NITI Aayog meeting scheduled for Sunday in Delhi. Chandrababu Naidu had already reached the national capital on Saturday evening.
Chandrababu Naidu is said to have prepared a detailed statement on the benefits that the Central government had given to the State in the last four years. He is likely to highlight the failures of the NDA government and Prime Minister Modi in helping the State after bifurcation, which had forced him to pull out from the NDA.
The special category status, railway zone in Visakhapatnam, steel plant in Kadapa, sea port in Dugarajapatnam are the major issues that Chandrababu Naidu is planning to hit at the Prime Minister. He is also upset with the Central government in releasing funds to the State for the educational and other institutions given to the State in the last four years, the funds promised for the four Rayalaseema and three Uttarandhra districts under the backward areas development fund, the low release of funds to the capital city Amaravati and Polavaram Projects are also to be highlighted at the meeting.
Interestingly, Chandrababu Naidu and Narendra Modi are sharing the dais for the first time on Sunday at the NITI Aayog meeting after they broke the alliance. Though Chandrababu Naidu had visited the Parliament and met several leaders after breaking up the alliance, he did not have the chance to meet Narendra Modi. It is for the first time the leaders are coming together and Chandrababu Naidu is set to be hard in his speech, which was well drafted by the senior bureaucrats.
Chandrababu Naidu is not happy with the flow of funds for the Central government institutions established in the last four years. While the private institutions for which the State government had allocated lands have completed construction of their campuses and started classes in Amaravati, the institutions established by the Central government are yet to start the construction of campuses and the Chief Minister is not happy with the meagre allocation of funds, which he is set to highlight.
