Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu today hoped that the Centre would fulfill its promise of giving funds under special packages to the State on par with facilities underlined in the Special Status category.
Naidu was addressing a Jana Chaitanya Yatra meeting at Chodavaram in Visakhapatnam district where he said that the Centre had assured him that it would provide more funds under the package than what the State could get under Special Status.
Refuting allegations that the State would get fewer funds under Special Status, the Chief Minister said that some miscreants - referring mainly to the YSR Congress Party and the Jana Sena Party - were willfully spreading half-baked information on the special package.
Blaming the Congress - which ruled AP for ten years - for the present problems being faced by the State, Naidu said that he was relentlessly working towards fixing these problems and also the overall development of the State, and that his aim was to eradicate poverty.
"Though we had a chance to operate from Hyderabad for the next ten years, we decided to shift government machinery to Amaravathi for the sake of the people," he added.
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