Sonia asks Modi to fulfill promises made
by UPA to Seemandhra :
UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi has written to Prime Minister
Narendra Modi urging him to implement the commitments made by the previous
Congress-led government to Seemandhra which include grant of special category
status to it and execution of Polavaram multi-purpose irrigation project.
She said the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014, by
which Telangana was carved out of Andhra Pradesh, contains various investment
and other commitments by the government of India to Seemandhra region.
The Congress President promised all cooperation to the Modi
government in implementing these commitments.
"....The groundwork for many of them, like in the area
of water resources, grant of special category status and facilitating the
Polavaram project had already been laid by the erstwhile UPA government. I do
hope that your administration will build on what we had accomplished and take
them forward," Gandhi said in the letter.
She noted that the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and
the then Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde had also made certain further
commitments on the floor of the Rajya Sabha on February 20, 2014 on which the
Union Cabinet had taken certain decisions.
In the letter, she also attached a note giving details of
the commitments made by then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Home Minister
Sushil Kumar Shinde.
"As President of Indian National Congress whose
coalition government drafted the Reorganisation Act and got it passed through
parliament, I assure you of our cooperation in ensuring that the commitments
made to the people of the successor state of Andhra Pradesh are fulfilled both
in letter and spirit," Gandhi added.