Fight for special status for the state of Andhra Pradesh is at the cross roads. Now with Union Government headed by PM Modi making it clear that Andhra Pradesh willnot be granted special status and unilaterally announced special package, which forced its ally AP CM Chandra Babu to accept it without any choice, it is left to the opposition parties to do something.
Sonia Gandhi's Congress party which is trying to win the hearts of the people speaking for special status, however exposed itself completely with the fight between Undavalli Arun Kumar, Jana Reddy and Ponnam Prabhakar's fight on what happened during introduction of APSRC bill in Parliament.
The way Ponnam Prabhakar revealed that they threatened their high command to assassinate their own CM in AP, showed how Congress bowed to blackmail.
Leader of the opposition Jagan Mohan Reddy of YSRP is conducting one or the other form of protests regarding special status. Power Star Pawan Kalyan,chief of Jana Sena breathed fire at Tirupati and Kakinada meetings but then went into silent mode.
It is known that Pawan and Jagan enjoys huge fan following and the question is will both of them come together for special status fight and build pressure on Modi-CBN coalition. Undavalli Arun Kumar says this is the only way special status can be achieved.
However many say Pawan Kalyan's credibility will be questioned if he supports Jagan who is reeling under corruption cases and his clean image will be tarnished. It has to be seen what's going on in Pawan's mind. For the timebeing only Jagan is organising one or the other protest for special status and he found support from film actor Sivaji who has been vociferous demanding special status.
