BJP youth wing national executive member Ramesh Naidu on Friday said that the TDP by pulling out its Ministers from the Narendra Modi Cabinet was trying to divert the people’s attention from its failures on various fronts.
Facing anti-incumbency, the State government with a ‘poor record’ of unkept poll promises had tried to project the Centre as ‘villain’ before the people, he told a media conference here on Friday. He found fault with the State government for not providing unemployment allowance of ₹2,000 to the youth in the last four years.
But for the SCS tag, the NDA government at the Centre had provided in lieu of it financial assistance to Andhra Pradesh on a scale not given to any other State.
“We will not seek the people’s vote in 2019 without starting all the Central institutions of higher educational promised to the State,” he said, adding a majority of them had started functioning in just 3-1/2 years when it had time to create the infrastructure only within 10 years. Only with the assistance extended by the Centre under various heads, the State was able to register a double digit growth, he said. Though the Centre agreed to bear 90% of EAPs, the State government had failed to get projects sanctioned, he said.
The BJP activists would undertake a vigorous campaign to the grassroots level to create awareness on the assistance provided to the State.
He blamed the TDP government for not suggesting an alternative site to Dugarajapatnam, which was found technically infeasible and economically unviable by experts.
