Though, being the main cause of Andhra Pradesh bifurcation, UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi seems to gain some mileage in Seemandhra. On Monday Sonia wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to implement the commitments made by them while they were in office. Sonia requested Modi to continue the grant of special category status to Seemandhra and execution of Polavaram multi-purpose irrigation project, approved by them.
She said the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014, by which Telangana was carved out of Andhra Pradesh, contains various investment and other commitments by the government of India to the Seemandhra region. The Congress president promised all cooperation to the Modi government in implementing these commitments.
“....The groundwork for many of them, like in the area of water resources, grant of special category status and facilitating the Polavaram project had already been laid by the erstwhile UPA government. I do hope that your administration will build on what we had accomplished and take them forward,” Ms. Gandhi said in the letter dated on Monday.
She noted that the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the then Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde had also made certain further commitments on the floor of the Rajya Sabha on February 20, 2014 on which the Union Cabinet had taken certain decisions.
