Reiterating that the fight for Special Category Status (SCS) will continue relentlessly till the goal is achieved, YSR Congress took strong objection to the BJP and TDP leaders’ for linking the same with northeast states stating that there has been no development there.

Party leader and former minister K Parthasarathy said that it was unfair on part of the leaders of both the parties as the socio-economic, demographic, geographic equations are very different and the natural and human resources of our state are very conducive for growth.

He deplored that it was the same BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu who raised his voice in the Upper House and sought more years of SCS for development of Andhra Pradesh and after coming to power has been speaking in a negative tone on the issue and Chandrababu Naidu has joined tune.

“We are very firm that the special package is no substitute for SCS. Special Package, of which the TDP-BJP duo has been beating tom-tom in high decibels, has nothing new in it. What was mentioned in the State Reorganisation Act has been included and nothing more but everything less,” he added.

Despite the leaders of BJP and TDP trying hard to water down the SCS, he asserted that his party will continue our fight relentlessly till the goal is achieved.

Though the government has announced that MoUs were signed for Rs 10.5 lakh crore investments, he said the reality was otherwise. He recalled that the Governor’s address itself speaks of a much lower investment figure with 102 projects in pipeline and an investment of Rs 5,900 crore. The neighboring Maharashtra has got investment of Rs 40,000 crores.The incentives which come along with the SCS would have fetched more investments, he said.