TDP gets ready with memo on Special Category Status to President

​New Delhi: The competitive protests taken up by the TDP and YSRCP seems to be taking new turns and twists. While five YSRCP MPs sat on fast at AP Bhavan in New Delhi, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu directed his party MPs to stay put in Delhi for some more time.

According to TDPP leader C M Ramesh, they would meet the President of India and submit a memorandum explaining how the Centre had failed to implement the assurances given in the AP State Reorganisation Act 2014 even four years after the bifurcation of the state which forced them to quit the NDA.

The MPs will submit documents to prove their charge that the Centre had ‘cheated’ the people of Andhra Pradesh.

During the teleconference Naidu had with the MPs on Saturday morning, one of the MPs felt that they should also try to meet the Prime Minister to demand special category status to the state.

Naidu said that a decision on this would be taken after reviewing the developments at the party’s politburo meeting to be held soon.

Meanwhile, the TDP MPs have been asked to come up with an action plan of activities that need to be taken up in Delhi to put pressure on the Centre. Back in the state, the TDP will intensify protests across the state and would adopt innovative ways to register their protest demanding SCS.

Taking a leaf out of the agitation for separate Telangana, the TDP would resort to cooking and eating food on roads, etc.

Later talking to the media, Ramesh lashed out at the YSRCP for adopting duel standards. He said the resignation of the MPs should mean that all the MPs from the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha.

Of the seven, only five Lok Sabha MPs of YSRCP have resigned and were enacting a drama while the other two were lobbying with the BJP to get relief from the cases against party chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy.