UPA will accord SCS, if voted to power: Congress

Ongole: The Prakasam district unit of the Congress demanded that the Central government keep the promise made by Narendra Modi over Special Category Status at least now. 

As the Parliament was discussing no confidence motion on the Union government, the Congress leaders staged a protest and human chain at the Ambedkar statue on Friday and said that Narendra Modi had betrayed the people of Andhra Pradesh.

Eda Sudhakar Reddy, the Prakasam District Congress Committee president said that the Union government should cooperate in implementing every promise in the bifurcation bill and respect the promise made by the former prime minister Manmohan Singh in the Parliament. 

He said that the BJP had promised 10 years of Special Category Status for the state at the time 2014 elections but betrayed the people of the state.

He said that it was shocking that the Central government conveyed to the Supreme Court that all promises in the bifurcation bill were implemented.

He said that the public in the state were ready to dump the BJP in the Bay of Bengal in the 2019 elections. He said confidently that the UPA was going to form the government in 2019 and Rahul Gandhi would be the prime minister. 

He announced that if BJP failed to heed to the demand of the public, Rahul Gandhi as prime minister would make his first sign on the file of SCS  to Andhra Pradesh. 

He requested the support of the public to back the Congress and bring SCS and see all promises in the bifurcation act implemented without fail.

The Ongole town Congress president, Sripati Prakasam, official spokesperson Yadala Rajasekhar, PCC secretary Gade Lakshmareddy, constituency in charges V Srinivasa Rao, G Raj Vimal and others also participated in the protest.