At a time when Telangana Chief Minister Okay Chandrashekar Rao is making an attempt to convey collectively varied regional events to type an anti-BJP alliance, the BJP-led Center appears to be going out of its method to “appease” his counterpart in neighboring Andhra Pradesh, YS Jagan Mohan Reddy.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi lately instructed Parliament that the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh in 2014 was executed rapidly with out correct session. While the PM’s assertion happy the ruling YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) in Andhra Pradesh, it upset the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) and different events in Telangana.
On 17 February, when the TRS launched full-page entrance web page commercials in newspapers to mark CM KC Rao’s birthday, the Union ministry of street transport and highways issued a full-page advert relating to its varied nationwide freeway tasks in Andhra Pradesh involving a complete funding of Rs 21,559 crore.
Flanked by CM Reddy, Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari, who was then visiting Vijayawada, described Andhra Pradesh as a “progressive state with a good potential for development”. Conceding the CM’s request apparently on the spot, he accepted the Eastern Bypass to Vijayawada apart from sanctioning 30 roads-over-bridges (RoBs) for the town reeling underneath visitors jams.
On the opposite hand, CM KCR has been spewing venom in opposition to the Modi dispensation for “giving a cold shoulder” to Telangana and never offering funds for irrigation and infrastructure tasks to the state within the Union Budget. Telangana has been urging the Center to grant nationwide undertaking standing to the Rs 1 lakh crore-Kaleshwaram undertaking, however to no avail.
After KCR upped the ante in opposition to the BJP following the TRS’s defeat within the Huzurabad bypoll final November, Rajya Sabha MP GVL Narasimha Rao put a query in regards to the central funds given to Andhra Pradesh. In her reply, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman instructed the House that the Center had given a monetary help of Rs 36,029 crore to the state throughout 2019-2021. She mentioned Andhra additionally acquired grants-in-aid from the Center to the tune of Rs 26,587 crore as beneficial by the fifteenth Finance Commission for 2020-21 and 2021-22. A month later, Jagan Mohan Reddy met PM Modi with a recent want listing.
During his 17 February go to, Gadkari inaugurated 21 accomplished tasks and laid basis stone for 30 new tasks, apart from inaugurating the Western Bypass Flyover 2 in Vijayawada.
“The Union minister laid emphasis on development of infrastructure and improved road connectivity for the growth of industry and agriculture besides extending all help from the Center in the development process,” CM Reddy mentioned. Gadkari mentioned the CM had requested the Center in August 2019 for the Western Bypass Flyover 2, which was instantly cleared. “Even the Kanaka Durga Temple Flyover was completed with the help from the Center after YSRCP came to power,” he added.
Stressing that the enlargement and improvement of highways has been the Centre’s precedence, Gadkari lauded Jagan Mohan Reddy for allocating Rs 10,600 crore for the state highways. He mentioned that Rs 6,400 crore was allotted for connecting the district headquarters to mandals by two-lane highways, Rs 2,300 crore for his or her restore and upkeep, and Rs 1,700 crore for the pending works.
The Union Minister was all reward for the Andhra CM, calling him a “young and dynamic leader who is taking the state forward”. He mentioned the event of the state’s two foremost ports would increase employment era, income and connectivity for which, he added, the Center would prolong all assist to the state.
Gadkari additionally assured CM Reddy that by 2024 the Center would spend 3 lakh crore for improvement of roads within the state. Of the 23 greenfield categorical freeway tasks the ministry has taken up, 6 are in Andhra Pradesh, which embrace Raipur-Visakhapatnam to be accomplished by 2024; Nagpur to Vijayawada freeway to be accomplished by 2025; and Chittoor-Tanjavur freeway and Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam and Bangalore Chennai freeway, all of which might be accomplished by 2025.
Gadkari additionally mentioned the Center want to see the Polavaram undertaking accomplished quickly as it could profit farmers.
In one other outreach, on February 18, the Center despatched NTPC CMD Gurudeep Singh to satisfy CM Reddy and “discuss possibilities for collaborating with the AP government for renewable energy, pumped storage, and efficiency in power sector etc.”
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
