Jagan-Jaitley meet: Focus on AP development

* Wants action on all assurances

*Calls for speeding up infra projects

* Demands extension of special status for 15 years

Leader of the Opposition and YSR Congress Chief YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Friday met Finance minister Arun Jaitley and took up with him the issue of the development of the state of Andhra Pradesh. 

In a memorandum submitted to Arun Jaitley, YS Jagan requested the union minister to fulfill all the promises made by the Union Government as outlined in the AP Reorganisation Act -2014.

Jagan pointed out that there are a lot assurances given by the Centre in the AP Reorganisation Act like the sanctioning of IIT, NIIT, IIM, IIScR, Central University, National Institute of Disaster Management and Metro trains, Tribal university and AllMS type Super-Specialty Hospital-cum-Teaching Institution. 

Stating that there is no mention about these issues in the Union Budget 2014-15, Jagan requested the FM to take up implementation of the these assurances at the earliest, as AP would remain backward if the infrastructural issues were not addressed.

The YSRCP chief further urged the Union Minister that AP should be given Special Category status for a period of 15 years and similarly, the fiscal incentive package should be in force for 15 years in the least.

He raised issues relating to the state of Andhra Pradesh and the propsals in the 13th schedule of the Act. Jagan asked the minister to take steps to set up a Steel plant at Kadapa, Petrochemical complex at Visakhapatnam, take up the upgradation of airports in Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada and Tirupati as international airports, setting up of metro rail facility in Visakhapatnam city and in Vijayawada-Tenali-Guntur stretch.

After meeting Jaitley, YS Jagan said that the problems were explained to the minister and added that the minister responded positively. He met the Union Finance Minister along with his party leaders. 

The YSRCP chief  is expected to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi too.

He met President Pranab Mukherjee and Union home minister Rajnath Singh and raised the issue of attacks on YSRCP activists, he wanted the Union Home Minister to issue a directive to the state government which has has unleashed a reign of terror on the activists of YSRC, asking it to stop intimidating the Opposition.

-Siva@Sakshipost