The Congress, the Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India-Marxist and Forum for Achieving Special Status also called for the shutdown.
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“Extremely grateful to Prime Minister & Finance minister for giving best possible solution for speedy & all round development of Andhra Pradesh (sic)”, he said in another tweet.
Political parties should do their “homework” instead of sticking to their demand of seeking special status for Andhra Pradesh, Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today said.
“I will appeal to them to please do some homework on what exactly the central government has extended to Andhra Pradesh”.
With Chandrababu Naidu raising objections and the PMO taking its own time, Jaitley, who was supposed to announce the package at 6.30 pm, put it off twice.
Venkaiah also spoke Naidu on phone and discussed the contentious issue. The Polavaram irrigation project was also declared as the National Project and the Centre would meet its cost.
Jaitley said that the Union Cabinet will soon ratify the special assistance measures.
He said, the state government would be authorised to do the construction of the project.
When pointed out that the centre has said it would fund only the irrigation component of the project, Mr Naidu said it would include the resettlement and rehabilitation aspects as well.
A special status, which gives preferential treatment in getting central funds assistance, is given to a state if it is in a hilly and hard terrain, strategic located along the borders of the country, has low population density, has economic and infrastructure inadequacies and financial unviabililty.
At several places, students forced educational institutions to close down.
The announcement came after day-long consultations Chowdary and other leaders of Telugu Desam Party (TDP) had with Jaitley, Venkaiah Naidu and other central ministers. “What happened to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s promise of fulfilling all promises made to Andhra?”
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Sources said with regard to the new railway zone in AP, the railway ministry asked the state government to propose another city, preferably Vijayawada, in the wake of lack of technical and commercial viability for the proposed headquarters at Visakhapatnam. Hyderabad is the state’s economic centre.
