With KCR Seeking An Anti-BJP Front, Modi Steps Up Andhra Pradesh CM.

When Telangana CM KCR is trying to bring together various regional parties to form an anti-BJP alliance, the BJP-led Centre seems to be going out of its way to “appease” its counterpart in neighboring Andhra Pradesh, YS Jagan Mohan Reddy.

PM Modi recently told Parliament that the bifurcation of AP in 2014 was done hastily without proper consultation. While the PM’s statement pleased the ruling YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) in Andhra Pradesh, it upset the ruling TRS and other parties in Telangana.

On 17 February, when the TRS released a full-page front-page ad in newspapers to mark CM KCR’s birthday, the Union ministry of road transport and Highway issued a full-page ad regarding its various national highway projects in Andhra Pradesh involving a total investment of Rs 21,559 crore.

On the other hand, CM KCR has been spewing venom against the Modi dispensation for “giving a cold shoulder” to Telangana and not providing funds for irrigation and infrastructure projects to the state in the Union Budget.