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AP CM Chandrababu  SCS strategy pays off with Modi, claims CMO

The recent meeting of Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu with PM Narendra Modi in Delhi is learnt to be not successful completely.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is believed to have agreed to all demands put forward by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu barring the Special Category Status by name.

Chandrababu went to the meeting with a full plan and put the Prime Minister in the defensive on the Special Category Status (SCS) demand, as some of the media reported.

The Chief Minister is learnt to have prepared an 18-page report on the State's 12 demands, including the SCS.

The Chief Minister reportedly told him that the SCS was the right of AP. This demand had to be conceded, regardless of the NITI Ayog or the Finance Commission recommendations.

If you do not concede the SCS demand, the people would lose their remnant faith in Parliament, as it was made on the floor of Parliament.

The Congress, which was in power and drafted the demand, and your party, the BJP, had together promised to implement the demand. This was supported by all parties in Parliament, the Chief Minister is believed to have said.

Having been put in the defensive, the Prime Minister had to concede all demands, including mumbling on the SCS. He had to assure that everything would be done for AP.