Prime Minister Narendra Modi had blamed the Congress on what he called the unscientific bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh.
His remarks on AP bifurcation in Rajya Sabha on Tuesday were probably a reply to YSR Congress MP Vijayasai Reddy’s speech in the House on Monday.
Though Modi’s reference to the issue is welcome, he cannot blame only Congress for bifurcation woes and wash off his hands.
The BJP too has its role in the injustice done to AP. It was on the demand of then BJP MP, M Venkaiah Naidu, on the same floor of Rajya Sabha, that special category status was promised to AP.
It was same Narendra Modi, during his election campaign in 2014 at Tirupati, who promised justice to AP.
The BJP had gone back on what it wanted for AP in Rajya Sabha in 2013. Narendra Modi is not doing what he had promised for AP in 2014 election campaign.
AP chief minister Jagan Mohan Reddy had met Narendra Modi for seven times so far and Home Minister Amit Shah for 12 times in the last three years and every time, with every leader, Jagan had been asking for the special category status in vain.
When Modi says that Congress had done injustice to AP or for both the States, what is BJP doing or what Modi had done to correct it is the big question that he and his party should answer.
The BJP leaders from AP should also answer the questions raised by their Prime Minister on the injustice done to AP in bifurcation.
Is any BJP leader ready to raise the issues or get the injustice corrected under Modi’s leadership?