Sri City revolution

For the people who missed how Chandrababu Naidu changed the image of Hyderabad and turned it into a top IT destination, here is CBN 2.0, who is repeating the magic now in Andhra. Though this time it is not IT revolution, it is about making Andhra into top manufacturing destination.

Back in 1994-2002, there was euphoria around Andhra Pradesh and Hyderabad in particular. IIIT, ISB, Rytubazars, Janmabhoomi, MMTS, Sports stadiums, Hitec City, Hitex, Flyovers, eSeva centres, ICICI Knowledge park, Shamshabad Airport, Financial District etc were buzz words in National Media. Industrialists used to be spellbound in the speed of execution of projects.

Back to 2016, the same buzz is seen among industrialists on the speed of execution of projects in Andhra. There is a significant media coverage on the companies setting up shop in Sri City and  Tamil Nadu and Karnataka losing to Andhra in attracting investments.

Special Status to Andhra Pradesh

There is a resent wide spreading in Andhra Pradesh over the Special Status. This is not merely for the Special Status but can be seen as 'broken promise'.

To put it straight many people don't know what is special status and what are the benefits it is going to bring to the state and how they are going to be benefitted at individual level. What the emotion of an individual is - you promised us and you broke the promise.

In such situation, before the emotion at individual level becomes a mass emotion, the BJP leadership should clearly say what they are going to offer to the state instead of special status and how it is going to be good than special status.

But till date there has nothing been done to the state specially. Whatever BJP leaders are showing to the people of Andhra as the package is nothing special and is generally given to any state. As this point is spreading in social media, people of Andhra started to think beyond Special Status and looking at what BJP has done to the state. They started asking - Does BJP give Railway Zone, funds to Polavaram or funds to Amaravati?

Media channels started pulling out old videos of Modi promising everything to Andhra including special status. Now, with this, damage will be more for BJP.

BJP leadership has brought down the situation from mere Special Status to digging of old videos. Remember, people of AP can throw BJP into Bay of Bengal similar to what they did to Congress.

It is high time for BJP leadership to think above petty politics and do something  really good for the state. People of Andhra will give a thumping majority.