Special Category Status  

Post abrogation of Article 370 and removal of special category status, 575 youths today joined Light Infantry Regimental Centre during passing out parade held in Srinagar.
 

Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Thursday (August 15) attacked the Centre for scrapping Article 370 and providing special category status to Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh

The newly-elected Andhra Pradesh chief minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy met Union home minister Amit Shah in the national capital on June 14 to discuss the special category status for the state. Reddy also said he would raise the demand in the first meeting of the governing council of the NITI Aayog.

Day after YSRCP chief Jaganmohan Reddy was unanimously elected as the leader of the YSRC Legislature Party, Jagan reached Delhi to meet PM Modi and discussed issues concerning the Special Category Status for Andhra Pradesh.

Vijaysai Reddy of YSRCP made it clear that his party will support any party coming into power in the Centre, on the condition that special category status be allotted to Andhra Pradesh

Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has reaffirmed support for special category status to Andhra Pradesh

Speaking to MyNation, Telangana BJP spokesperson Krishna Sagar Rao explained how YSRCP chief Jaganmohan Reddy is planning to gain sympathy votes from the people of Andhra Pradesh by keeping the Special Category Status as a priority and forgetting the future development of the state.

Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu challenged YSR Jagan Mohan Reddy to convince Telangana’s KCR to include Andhra’s special category status in the federal front manifesto

Rahul Gandhi who promised voters in Andhra Pradesh to ensure special category status is granted to the state will fly to Bengaluru to address a gathering in the outskirts of the city.

Andhra Pradesh, under N Chandrababu Naidu, has fallen out with the NDA, never received the Special Category Status, and neither the development nor investments have happened the way people had hoped for
 

On Tuesday, the YSRCP protested in the Parliament demanding a Special Category Status for Andhra Pradesh

The Statue of Unity is 182 meters tall. But, Andhra Pradesh's Assembly Building is going to be 250 meters tall to be built at a cost of Rs 6,705 crore.

 

The Union Minister was speaking at a gathering after laying the foundation stone for a new state headquarters of the BJP in Andhra Pradesh's Guntur district