TRS leader and Khammam MP Nama Nageshwar Rao today expressed displeasure at the BJP-led Centre for not implementing the bifurcation promises made to Telangana and Andhra Pradesh in 2014.
Raising the matter in the Parliament, the MP demanded that the Centre provide clarity regarding when it would set up a railway coach factory in Kazipet, and fulfil its other promises to Telangana.
He denied the allegations made by Union Minister Nityanand Rai that the two Telugu-speaking states were themselves fighting over the fulfilment of the bifurcation assurances, and pointed out that both Telangana CM K Chandrashekar Rao and Andhra Pradesh CM Y S Jaganmohan Reddy had repeatedly approached the Centre seeking an amicable way to implement the Act.
"After the Centre has deliberately ignored our repeated pleas regarding the Act, the ball is now in its court. It does not seem to be in any mood to ever fulfil the bifurcation promises. Does it not realise that the projects mentioned in the Act, including the steel factory in Bayyaram, the Information Technology Investment Region, and funds to irrigation projects, development and flagship schemes, will help our people greatly? The TRS government's Mission Bhagiratha program, which is successfully supplying clean drinking water to much of rural Telangana, too, was completed without any help from the Centre. Its treatment of our problems has been apathetic for far too long, and must change," Rao railed.
TDP MP K Rammohan Naidu also took up the issue, and demanded that the union government release a white paper on its plans regarding the bifurcation promises. YSR Congress Party MP Mithun Reddy echoed the demand as well.
The Centre has often drawn flak from leaders across the two states for the alleged delay in the implementation of the 2014 Act. Earlier this month, Telangana Finance Minister T Harish Rao had also
lambasted the Modi government for not fulfilling the promises made to the state during the AP bifurcation.