Naidu meets President, seeks AP special status

New Delhi, Feb. 12: Andhra Pradesh chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu along with TDP MPs and MLAs met President Ramnath Kovind at Rashtrapati Bhavan here on Tuesday and raised demand for special status for the state.

The delegation marched from Andhra Pradesh Bhavan to Rashtrapati Bhavan and presented a memorandum to the President with 18 demands, including the Bifurcation Act promises and special status to the state.

“We met the President and apprised him of our demands. The central government has ignored the Andhra Pradesh bifurcation act promises.

The Modi government is passing the time without releasing grants to the state. “For the development of Hyderabad there has been a struggle for 60 years and today it stands as a world- class city. On seeing the injustice done to Andhra Pradesh many people went into depression and recently a physically Andhra Pradesh CM N. Chandrababu Naidu leads a march from Andhra Bhavan to Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on Tuesday. — BUNNY SMITH challenged man Arjun went on a daylong fast Rao has committed suicide that became a rallying over the special status point for opposition not being granted to unity for the second time the state,” Mr Naidu said in less than a month to at a press conference. take on the BJP ahead of

He said that a possibility the Lok Sabha polls. of pre poll alliance Mr Naidu has over the with opposition parties last three months held a cannot be ruled out. number of meetings with

“Nothing is decided yet opposition party leaders but possibility of a pre on forming an anti- BJP poll alliance with opposition front. The TDP pulled out parties cannot be of the NDA government ruled out,” he added. in March last year over

Bringing his battle for its refusal to grant special special status for his status to Andhra state to the national capital, Pradesh. Naidu on Monday