While both opposition is getting ready to face the government’s ire for conducting protest today at Visakhapatnam beach on the issue of Special Category Status (SCS) for Andhra Pradesh, senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha member Dr. KVP Ramachandra Rao has called for a global Twitter campaign.

In a open letter he urged Telugus across the globe to tweet their demand for SCS. He said that he felt it was his duty to appeal to the Telugus to begin a mission to tweet the demand for SCS for the State and protest against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s inordinate delay in fulfilling the promises made in Parliament to Andhra Pradesh.

On behalf of the Congress party, he urged Telugus across the world to use the nation’s 68th Republic Day as the launch pad to take to twitter. “Let us turn the 140-character limit into a virtual weapon to force the Centre to realise the legitimate and legal demands of the State”, he said.

He said the tweets need to be accompanied with hashtags #WeDemandSpecialCagetoryStatusForAP, #CompletionOfPolavaram- Project, #SpecialPackageForBackwardRe gions, #FundForCapitalCity, #DistributionOfAssetsAsPerSchedule9&10, #FullfillingRevenueDeficit, #Vizag- ChennaiIndustrialCorridor, #RailwayZoneAtVizag, #PortAt- D u g a r a j a p a t n a m , #SteelPlantAtYSRKadapaDist.

He also wanted the twitter handle of Prime Minister, Finance Minister and AP Chief Minister, which are @narendramodi, @ PMOUnion, @arunjaitely, @ MVenkaiahNaidu and @ncbn, to be used in the tweets, so as to address the issue to the person concerned. He said at least one of them should be tagged along with the hashtag with a sentence of protest.

He deplored it was very unfortunate and totally distressing that Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu ignored his request to take up the leadership backed by the involvement of all political parties, media, intellectuals, students, youth and the film industry for a battle with the Centre for the fulfilment of promises.