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‘Ready to revive third front if funds not granted’, says MLC Rajendra Prasad

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Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Visakhapatnam


‘We will not hesitate to revive the third front if the BJP led NDA Government does not give us funds that have been promised or give us Special Category Status’, said MLC Babu Rajendra Prasad.

Speaking to media here today, he said ‘if our demands are not met, we will go ahead with the creation of the third front with Chandrababu Naidu as its leader. But, he was quick to add that the fight was between the Centre and the State governments and not between the BJP and TDP.

On special package, he said that ‘we were promised special package and we accepted it as the Finance Minister had said that it was not possible to give the SCS, but it component will be equivalent to the SCS. But in the last budget, there was no mention of its fulfillment or allotment of funds.

He said the NDA government could allot Rs.1 lakh crore for the bullet train and Rs.1,700 crore for building a meeting centre in Gujarat, but for Amaravati, the allocation was a meagre Rs.1,500 crore.