MPs from Andhra Pradesh continued to stall Parliament for the third consecutive day on Wednesday and they raised their pitch as Prime Minister Narendra Modi started to speak on the motion of thanks to President’s speech in Lok Sabha.
The ruling Telugu Desam Party in Andhra Pradesh has virtually “managed” the Centre to get a statement from the Centre in Parliament on the implementation of promises made in the AP Reorganisation Act so as to appease the agitated people of the state and also outwit the opposition parties.
Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu’s main condition for continuing the alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party is not fulfilling the promises made in the AP Reorganisation Act, but is that the Centre should not entertain YSR Congress party and its president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy.
The agitation by the MPs belonging to Andhra Pradesh, including that of the TDP and YSR Congress party, besides Congress MP K V P Ramachandra Rao, in the last two days seems have forced the Centre to go into the defensive mode.
Telugu Desam Party MPs have started lobbying with the NDA government to get at least some benefits in the budget for the state as a face saving measure, but it looks like the response from the Centre is very cold.
Telugu Desam Party MP from Anantapur J C Diwakar Reddy is known for calling a spade a spade and does not mince words even he wants to speak against his own party president and chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu.
Amidst widening gap between the Telugu Desam Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party, Union minister of state for science and technology Y S Chowdary alias Sujana Chowdary met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Parliament to convey the growing resentment among the people over the injustice done to Andhra Pradesh in the budget.
Does Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu have a different strategy in not pulling out of the NDA immediately?
At last, the Centre has decided to put the proposal to increase the number of assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana on the backburner, for the simple reason that it does not help the Bharatiya Janata Party in any way.
When Telugu Desam Party general secretary Nara Lokesh was fumbling while addressing party workers or general public in the initial days of becoming a minister in his father N Chandrababu Naidu’s cabinet last year, his rivals used to make fun of him.
Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu has no intention of pulling his party out of the NDA in the near future, but will continue to enact the drama that he is fighting for the rights of the state.
Why didn’t Prime Minister Narendra Modi make any major allocations to Andhra Pradesh in the just presented Union budget in the Parliament?
Why did Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu, who was expected to announce a decision on parting ways with the Bharatiya Janata Party, suddenly mellow down on Sunday?
Nothing unusual has happened and heavens did not fall, as projected by the pro-Telugu Desam Party media.
All these days, the Bharatiya Janata Party leaders in Telangana were in a state of utter confusion as to how they should deal with the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi in the state – as a friendly party or as an enemy.
