Special category status: YSR Cong announces fresh action plan

Announcing a fresh action plan to mount pressure on the Centre to grant SCS to Andhra Pradesh, YSR Congress today said the party MPs would not only resign from their posts, but also launch an indefinite fast in New Delhi on the last day of the Budget session of the Parliament.

"Our party MPs will resign on the last day of the budget session and march to Andhra Bhavan in New Delhi and sit on an indefinite fast demanding Special Category Status (SCS) to the state," YSR Congress president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy said.

Across Andhra Pradesh, there would be relay hunger strikes by students at their respective university campuses and also in all assembly constituencies by party cadres, youth and other sections," Jagan said addressing a public meeting near Guntur as part of his ongoing paadayatra (foot march).

The Leader of the Opposition in the assembly said Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu has been "resorting to theatrics which could fetch him an Oscar award in the best anti-hero category."