Telugu Desam party has intensified its campaign that it had not received adequate help from the centre and many assurances given to the state remain unfulfilled. The ruling of party of Andhra Pradesh appears to have embarked on the campaign to place the facts before the people of the state and the Prime Minister Modi’s NDA government , following BJP national president Amit Shah’s assertion that the centre had so far released to the state Rs 1.40 lakh crore.
Addressing a public meeting Rajahmundry four days ago Shah , listing out the schemes under which the funding had been made, said all put together about Rs 1.40 lakh crore financial assistance had been extended to Andhra Pradesh.
So, the TDP launched the campaign to expose the fallacy of Amit Shah’s claim in Assembly and in Paliament. Guntur MP Galla Jayadev placed before the Lok Sabha the short fall in the implementation of the assurances given to Andhra Pradesh at the time of passage of the bifurcation bill.
Participating in the debate on the union budget he said ,” Even smaller assurances given to AP have not been fulfilled by the centre. PM Narendra Modi also made a lot of promises during the poll campaign and while laying foundation stone for the new capital Amaravati, None taken seriously by the center”. Stating that the CM Naidu had been struggling hard to make the state recover from the shocks of division of the state, the Guntur MP,a close aide of Naidu, in the past two year, the assistance extended by the centre was just Rs 2303 crore.”
“The centre is supposed take care of the revenue deficit of Rs 16,200 crore. But it paid just Rs 2303 crore. There has been no talk of the balance Rs13,897 crore. Similarly centre has to release Rs 5050 crore to Polaram. Polavaram allocations are discouraging,” he said.
The second such refutation came from Finance Minister Yanamala Ramakrishnudu. In his budget speech, the FM dismissed the claim of Amit Shah by revealing how much the state got from the centre.” The state received only Rs 50 crore per district over the past two years for the development of seven backward districts of Rayalaseema and north coastal Andhra. We have received Rs 850 crore for Amravati capital and Rs 345 for for Polaravaram, and Rs 1000 crore or water supply and drainage projects from Vijayawada and Guntur cties,” the FM said in the budget speech.
After this chief minister Naidu held high level meetings with union finance minister Arun Jaitley and home minister Rajnath Singh etc on the need release the balance amounts for AP.
