As the Budget session of the Parliament begins on Monday, leaders of both the main parties in Andhra Pradesh- TDP and YCP met their MPs and briefed them on the issues related to their state to be focused in the Parliament. Both Chandrababu Naidu and YS Jaganmohan Reddy asked them to raise issues of important to the state and also persuade concerned union ministers on pending issues.
But, ironically, no such meeting was held by both Congress and BJP with Telangana MPs, so that to focus their attention on the issues related to the state. Moreover, not a single MP from Telangana put forward any proposal before the union finance minister on any issue of the state to be included in the forthcoming union budget.
Former Bharat Rashtra Samithi MP B Vinod Kumar lamented the BJP and Congress MPs from Telangana for their lack of action in advocating for the state’s key projects to the Central government. He pointed out that despite both parties securing eight MP seats each, none of them had submitted any requests for budget allocations to the Centre in the past 15 days.
With the budget session of Parliament scheduled to begin on Monday, Vinod Kumar urged Union Ministers from Telangana G Kishan Reddy and Bandi Sanjay Kumar, along with the BJP MPs to push for national status for Palamuru-Rangareddy Lift Irrigation Scheme, railway coach factory at Kazipet, steel plant at Bayyaram, and funds for backward districts and Navodaya Vidyalayas in every district of Telangana. He also called on the Congress MPs to advocate for these crucial projects.
He reminded MPs of these two national parties that this year budget lays the foundation for the next five years of Narendra Modi administration. Uunderscoring the importance of the upcoming budget session scheduled to begin on Monday, Vinod Kumar noted that the Modi government has largely ignored the issues enshrined in the Andhra Pradesh Bifurcation Act over the past decade.
Additionally, he highlighted that the Union government is expected to allocate substantial funds to Andhra Pradesh due to the critical support provided by the TDP at the Centre. He also called on the eight Congress MPs to exert pressure on the Centre to secure the necessary funds and projects for Telangana.
