TDP unhappy with paltry allocation to Andhra Pradesh

 The TDP, an active member of the ruling NDA, has expressed its displeasure over the paltry budget allocations made by Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.

The Politburo has asked Nara Chandrababu Naidu to seek remedial measures from the centre as pressure from the people of the state is mounting on the two-year-old government to perform.

The ruling party was in shock as the Budget made no mention about the special category status assured in the Reorganisation Act, no assistance to fill in Rs 12,000-cr budgetary deficit that accrued following partition. What hurt the state and the TDP is the   pittance of Rs 100 crore allocation for Polavaram project which requires an estimated Rs 36,000 cr to be completed by 2019. The AP government even failed to secure Rs 2,300 that it has spent on Polavaram canal work of the project last year.

It is also reported that union civil aviation minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju also offered to quit in protest and was to be convinced by the party president that the issue will be taken up at the right forum

Fissures between the TDP and the state BJP started appearing over allocations to Polavaram project after former Union minister and BJP leader Daggubati Purandeswari made it clear that there is no role for the Union government in Polavaram, as per the tripartite agreement between AP government and the Transstroy (India) Limited, to which the project was given.