Appealing to the people of the state not to resorting the self-sacrifice, chief minister Chandrababu Naidu accused opposition parties of instigating the people emotionally to commit suicides in the name of special status.
He cautioned the people not to fall prey to the opposition parties’ games with sentiments.
“Don’t get disheartened. We have to be patient . We don’t get anything from being in hurry. Don’t take extreme steps like suicides. We will fight to get what is our due,” he cautioned and appealed to the parties to be patient and make the people also to be patient.”We need speicial status. What there should be wider debate on what we would get by getting tag of special category status” he added.
Addressing media in Vijaywada this afternoon, Naidu rubbished the accusation of the opposition party that he was revolving the New Delhi to get himself bailed out from the cash-for-vote scam. Reassuring the people that the state would not relax its efforts in getting the assistance, he said the Prime Minister had instructed the NITI Ayog to prepare the road map. and asked people to give it sometime.
“The Prime Minister said Bihar case was different from AP. AP’s assistance has constitutionally backed. The assistance assured for AP is incorporated in the Act. Andhra Pradesh must be given assistance. What is there in the special status? You will get more than the entitlements of special category status,” is what Prime Minister assured him according to the chief minister.