Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu in response to the statement made by union minister Indrajit Singh in Lok Sabha yesterday said “It may be made in the context of Finance Commission recommendations. It is not applicable to the AP state because the central government has promised to grant special status to the state during bifurcation and not recently.”

Speaking at a party meeting held at Vijayawada today, he said, “our state has lost very heavily with bifurcation because of the hasty political decision taken by previous UPA government. So, we have been asking the Centre to implement all the commitments made to us in the AP Reorganization Act-2014. Centre has to help the state until it reaches level playing field with other states. Irrespective of the statement made by Indrajit Singh yesterday, we will keep pressurizing the Centre till it fulfills all its promises made to the state.”