TDP spokesman L. Dinakar said on Friday that the BJP-led NDA Government cheated the people of Andhra Pradesh by backtracking from its commitment to hand-hold the State after bifurcation.
YSR Congress Party president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy and its MP V. Vijaya Sai Reddy had sown the seed of suspicion in the minds of the BJP’s top brass about the sincerity of the State government, and went to the extent of writing misleading letters, he told the media here.
Deficit
Mr. Dinakar said the Central government had initially agreed to give ₹16,079 crore towards deficit financing as on 2014-15, but subsequently revised it to ₹7,200 crore by deducting payments made by the State for farm loan waiver, pensions, and increased salaries, against accounting norms. He asserted that Andhra Pradesh had so far got only ₹3,970 crore and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley came up with a new calculation that the outstanding amount was not more than ₹150 crore.
“This is nothing but denying the State’s right to obtain its full share of funds from the Centre,” he said.
The division of assets and liabilities was also flawed, and the Central government seemed to be not bothered about it.
Even as the Central government was clear about its political intentions behind depriving the State of its dues under the A.P. Reorganisation Act, the YSRCP leaders kept criticising the TDP, which waited for so long to get the people’s wishes fulfilled but to no avail as the BJP played the spoilsport, he said.
