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Andhra Pradesh special status LIVE Updates: TDP ministers submit resignation after Naidu talks to Modi

 BusinessToday.in        Last Updated: March 8, 2018  | 18:31 IST
TDP ministers resign from Modi cabinet over special status to Andhra Pradesh

Telugu Desam Party (TDP) today pulled out its two ministers - A Gajapathi Raju and YS Chowdary - from the Union Cabinet. Raju held the office of Union Aviation Minister, and Chowdary was the Minister of State for Science & Technology and Earth Sciences. Both the ministers submitted their resignations today.

The TDP chief in a tweet on Wednesday said: "The Centre has been taking one sided decisions and our patience has run out now. When the purpose of joining the union cabinet hasn't been fulfilled, it's best to resign now."

This comes after Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday ruled out any possibility of giving special category status to Andhra Pradesh, citing constitutional obligations. The Finance Minister referred to the 14th Finance Commission's recommendation which does not permit special category status to a state except the north-eastern states and the three hilly provinces.

LIVE UPDATES

06:20 pm: Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju and Minister of State for Science and Technology Y S Chowdary submitted their resignations to the Prime Minister: Report

17:15 pm: Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu. Two TDP ministers, who resigned from cabinet today in the morning, will meet the Prime Minister at 6 pm. Andhra Pradesh CM Naidu explained to the Prime Minister about reasons leading to the ministers' resignation and TDP withdrawing from the Union Government, according to ANI.


 

Other parties putting pressure on Naidu with false propaganda: Ananth Kumar
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar today said that YSR Congress and other parties were creating political pressure with false propaganda on the issue of special status to Andhra Pradesh. "The TDP has demanded special status. We are discussing with them...Unfortunately, YSR Congress and other parties are indulging in all sorts of false propaganda, spoiling the political atmosphere in the state and putting pressure on Chandrababu Naidu," Kumar said. He further said that the YSR Congress was falsely propagating that the Centre has not done anything for Andhra Pradesh. Amid this political pressure, Naidu has taken certain decisions.

RJD Leader Manoj Jha on TDP's Special Status Demand 
N Chandrababu Naidu took a historical step. Why did our CM (Nitish Kumar) took a step back? Letter was written to him to create pressure over issue of special status to Bihar. This is much needed especially with the kind of disparities here. CM should muster up at least 1% of Naidu's courage.

Ram Vilas Paswan on TDP's Special Status Demand 
Nitish's government has been demanding Bihar's special status for long and we've got a special package which is monetarily as beneficial as special status. But, despite this some people aren't satisfied and to them I will just say that India can only grow in NDA's regime. 

Two BJP ministers resign from AP Cabinet

Two BJP ministers in the Chandrababu Naidu Cabinet in Andhra Pradesh on Thursday resigned after the TDP decided to pull out of the Narendra Modi government. Health minister Kamineni Srinivas and Endowments minister P Manikyala Rao met the chief minister at the state Assembly and submitted their resignations.

01:35 pm: Let us not get confused. When the state of Andhra Pradesh was made, the people did not want to be treated as a residue material. There were some assurances made. UPA govt made some commitments, now these commitments are the questions: TDP MP Ashok Gajapathi Raju

01:20 pm: Prime Minister Modi had promised Special Status to Bihar in March 2014 during Lok Sabha election rally at Muzaffarpur. Nitish (Bihar CM) must play that speech recording in front of the Prime Minister: Lalu Prasad Yadav.

 

01:02 pm:  TDP MP CM Ramesh arrived at the Parliament wearing t-shirt with 6 demands for the state of Andhra Pradesh printed on it.

 

11:15 am:  What Arun Jaitley spoke yesterday is not good. You are holding hand of the North Eastern states but not Andhra Pradesh's. You are giving industrial incentives to them, not to Andhra Pradesh. Why this discrimination? Andhra Pradesh CM N Chandrababu Naidu.

 

10:30 am: No one from AP was willing to bifurcate, all resources related to generation of employment were in Hyderabad, bifurcation was not done in a scientific way & injustice done with the Andhra Pradesh: TDP MP Srinivas

 

10:20 am: It is not good that TDP has decided to breakaway from with NDA. Want to appeal to AP CM N Chandrababu Naidu that he must think over this decision once again for development of people of AP they should stay with NDA: Union Minister Ramdas Athawale.

 

Andhra Pradesh CM and TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu late night on Wednesday accused the Modi government of not honouring its promise and threatened to pull out of the Modi Cabinet. "Arun Jaitley's statement was the last straw. They are apparently predetermined. They don't appear to help the state," he said.

Finance Minister Jaitley in a press conference on Wednesday said that the government was committed to meeting all promises made to Andhra Pradesh at the time of carving out of Telengana four years back.

"But giving special category status, as demanded by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu, to any state apart from those in the North East and three hilly provinces is not constitutionally possible after the implementation of the 14th Finance Commission recommendation," he added.

(With inputs from agencies)

 

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