Step-motherly treatment to AP: YSRCP
Senior Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party (YSRCP) leader and Rajya Sabha MP V Vijaysai Reddy on Monday said the Budget has meted out step-motherly treatment to Andhra Pradesh. “As far as the state is concerned, we can clearly see a step-motherly treatment,” said Reddy outside the Parliament.
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Amaravati/New Delhi: Senior Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party (YSRCP) leader and Rajya Sabha MP V Vijaysai Reddy on Monday said the Budget has meted out step-motherly treatment to Andhra Pradesh. "As far as the state is concerned, we can clearly see a step-motherly treatment," said Reddy outside the Parliament.
With regard to the national highway, he said those states, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, West Bengal and Assam, that are going to the polls have been taken care of.
"This budget is looking like a budget for those states and the Central government has protected its interests where they lay. In everything, only West Bengal, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Kerala have received a project, but not Andhra," said Reddy. In the case of Metro train projects as well, Kochi, Bengaluru, Chennai and Nagpur received budgetary allocations, but not Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam, though we have been pleading from the time of bifurcation, he added.
Reddy said there was no mention of the Metro train projects in both these Andhra Pradesh cities.
"Atmanirbhar Bharat is not Atmanirbhar of Andhra Pradesh. We are not seeing any Atmanirbhar or self-reliance for AP. There is no mention of the revised Central Water Commission recommended Polavaram Project estimate of Rs 55,656 crore," he noted. The MP said there was no clarity on the 1.55 lakh acres of land which is yet to be acquired, and no mention of any new railway projects for the southern state.
