CPI flays Centre over SCS

Guntur: CPI leaders protested at Sanakar Vilas Centre here on Wednesday, demanding that the Centre accord Special Category Status to AP.

Addressing the gathering, the CPI district secretary, J Ajay Kumar demanded that the Centre release sufficient  funds  for the construction  of Polavaram Project, state  capital Amaravati and steel plant at Kadapa. He urged the Centre to keep up promises mentioned in the state bifurcation act immediately and extend helping hand to  the state. 

He criticized that the BJP-led government was cheating the people of AP  and did not  allotted sufficient funds to keep up promises mentioned in the act. He criticised that though Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu hailed from AP, he was not taking initiative to grant SCS to AP. He urged the MPs from AP  to mount pressure  on  the Centre for SCS because development was possible only with  the SCS.