ANDHRA PRADESH TD calls BJP’s list of Central aid to AP ‘cinema script’

TD denounced BJP’s claims regarding the financial support extended to the state. On Sunday, it released an 8page draft report prepared by the TD Party Knowledge Centre presenting facts countering BJP’s claims.

In its claims, the BJP mentioned that `3,979.5 crore had been allocated towards covering the state’s revenue deficit and also committed to allocating `22,113 crore to the state by 2020. But until now the balance amount is not released and the Centre is stating issuing of `120 crore only.

The TD said that `3,500 had been committed by the Centre towards the construction of the capital city, but only `1,500 crore had been released. The party said that though the BJP claimed that the Union government had allocated `1,500 crore towards the construction of four smart cities, not a single rupee had been released. The TD countered the BJP on 25 issues regarding Budget allocations.

The TD is angered by BJP’s 27-page report, which it believes is misguiding the public. The TD leaders asked Mr Hari Babu whether AP was part of the country or not as the BJP is claiming Doordarshan and passport offices were given to the state after bifurcation which the TD said is a mandate when a new state is formed.

In its 8-page draft report, the TD also mentioned that the state needed `42,935 crore for the construction of the Raj Bhavan, the Secretariat, the High Court, the Assembly, the Council and other infrastructure for the capital city. It asked whether the `1,500 crore released by the Union government mattered when compared to this requirement.

For the backward districts of Rayalaseema and northern Andhra, the state had requested `24,350 crore but the BJP-led NDA government had allocated only `1,050 crore, the TD said.

It added the Union government had yet to approve special assistance measures under EAP project proposals worth `18,857 crore.

It said the BJP had promised to cover the entire cost of the Polavaram project, but it had released only `4,662 crore until then, while `7,900 crore had been spent on the project. It said that `3,500 crore was due to the state by the Union government, for which the state was bearing additional `300 crore as interest.

The state government allotted land worth `1,000 crore for the establishment of IIT-Tirupati, and the Union government was supposed to allot `700 crore for the construction of the physical structure.

The TD said that the Centre had released only `90 crore in four years. It added that the state government had allotted land worth thousands of crores of rupees for the establishment of an NIT, an IIIT, a Central University, an IISER, an IIM, and an Agricultural University, but the Union government had failed to take those projects forward.