AP CM: People will take harsh decisions if they feel cheated over Budget

Amaravati, Feb 17:The Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu today said, in an indirect warning to the BJP, that people would take "harsh decisions" if they felt "cheated".

Naidu, who had so far spoken only in the Telugu Desam Party's internal meetings in the last fortnight about the "injustice" done to AP in the Union Budget 2018-19, opened up for the first time at an official meeting in the secretariat here this afternoon.

Addressing a budget preparatory conference here this afternoon, Naidu said that Andhra Pradesh had not got what was due from the Centre as per the AP Reorganisation Act, 2014.

"The Centre has not fulfilled its promises (made in the Reorganisation Act and in Parliament). Funds were not adequately granted to the state. If people come to a firm opinion that they have been cheated and made to lose, they will take harsh decisions," the AP CM warned.

He added that the Congress had split the state in an "irrational manner" and had paid the price.

"The Congress party, which was in power at the Centre, split the state in an irrational manner. So people gave their verdict (in the 2014 elections) very strongly and made the party bite the dust. It could not even save its deposits," he pointed out.