JAGAN TO MEET PM MODI, AMIT SHAH IN DELHI

Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy will leave for Delhi on Thursday and meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah. The chief minister will brief the central leaders on his Davos tour and also discuss matters like release of central funds to the state.

The Chief Minister will depart for Delhi at 11.10am from Gannavaram airport and is likely to return to the state on Friday.

The last time the Chief Minister had a meeting with the Prime Minister was on April 5. It was a lengthy meeting that lasted over 45 minutes. He discussed various issues of the state. Later, the Centre had raised the state’s borrowing limit.

According to sources, cChief Minister Jagan would also discuss with the PM and Shah the presidential and vice-presidential elections and plead for a further easing of the borrowing limit for AP. There is a possibility of the chief minister extending his party’s support to the NDA in these elections in July.

Apart from issues concerning additional borrowings and the revised expenditure for Polavaram, Jagan might also discuss other issues of importance to the state, the sources said.

Jagan is expected to request the Centre to increase the state’s net borrowing ceiling for the current financial year in the backdrop of the row over the state’s mounting debt burden and unaccounted loans. The CAG has been asking government to furnish details related to loans raised by public sector undertakings backed by state guarantee. CAG is yet to finalise the state’s annual accounts for the 2021-22 financial year as the AP government did not furnish details of the liabilities.