Pawan Kalyan's JFC For Andhra Pradesh Starts Off

Pawan Kalyan's Joint Fact-Finding Committee constituted by him to ascertain what funds had been received by Andhra Pradesh so far from the union government and what was pending, kicked off deliberations today at a star hotel in Hyderabad.

The committee comprises former Congress MP Undavalli Arun Kumar and Lok Satta founder-president Jayaprakash Narayan.

Speaking at the brain-storming session, Undavalli asked what the use was of YSR Congress Party MPs tendering their resignations just nine months before the 2019 elections. He said that the MPs must instead fight for their cause in Parliament.

Undavalli also said that whatever versions the TDP and the BJP leaders chose to air, the truth was that the Centre had no intention of implementing the promises in the AP Reorganization Act.

He asked the 25 MPs belonging to Andhra Pradesh to therefore use their position to exert pressure on the Centre in Parliament.

He alleged that both the ruling and the opposition party MPs from Andhra Pradesh were extending support to the Narendra Modi government instead of fighting for their state, which was resulting in all the injustice to the state. There was no opposition to Modi in Andhra Pradesh, he said.

Lok Satta founder-president Jayaprakash Narayan said that the Joint Fact-Finding Committee would make vigorous efforts to get funds from the Centre to Andhra Pradesh.

JP said that the committee would discuss with prominent leaders, intellectuals and legal experts on the Central funds and the status of the assurances mentioned in the AP Reorganization Act.

Justice Gopala Gowda, present in the session, said that the funds from the Centre were not coming to the residual state though the state had been divided four years ago, and that he was happy that Jana Sena chief Pawan Kalyan had floated the committee.

Gowda said that he had a close association with Andhra Pradesh as his mother was from Chittoor district, and would extend advice to the JFC as a judge.