Akhilesh Yadav to fight for AP Special status

Vijayawada May 30: Surprisingly, a nonlocal leader is arriving Andhra Pradesh to participate in the fight for special status to Andhra Pradesh. Uttar Pradesh former Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav will attend a dharna organized by AP Congress Committee in Andhra on June 4.

He will take part in the agitational program along with AICC Vice President Rahul Gandhi in Vijayawada. It was the first time that a non-Andhra leader is joining the struggle for the long pending demand to grant special status to the residuary state of Andhra Pradesh after the bifurcation.

Rahul Gandhi joined hands with Akhilesh party Samajwadi Party in the just concluded Uttar Pradesh elections but lost.