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Get Special Package From Centre: Congress To KCR
Former MP Ponnam Prabhakar said AP had gotten a special package of Rs 850 crores from the Centre, and demanded KCR too get a similar package for Telangana.
Congress senior leader and former MP Ponnam Prabhakar accused Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao of having failed to get required funds from the Centre.
Speaking to media persons in the Assembly premises, Ponnam said that the Andhra Pradesh government had gotten a special package of Rs 850 crores from the Centre. He demanded that KCR too get a similar package for Telangana.
He said that the Chief Minister should stay in the national capital till he pressurised and got a similar package from the Centre.
Ponnam stated that KCR has been accusing the Centre of non-cooperation, and that the Chief Minister needed to understand the reasons that strained his relationship with the Central Government.
He said that KCR should not expect the opposition parties to build a relationship with the Centre to get sops for Telangana. Being in power, it was the responsibility of the Chief Minister to get equal benefits for Telangana from the Centre.
Stating that the government could not be run just by selling away government lands, he advised KCR to improve his relations with the Centre and also take all opposition parties into confidence. (INN)