As major political drama is unfolding in Rajya Sabha over Special Category Status to the successor state of Andhra Pradesh and likely to spread to Lok Sabha as MPs like Rammohan Naidu taking up the issue, the whole politics surrounding Special Category Status is with national political parties BJP and Congress are trying for one-upmanship on the issue, regional political parties like TDP and YSRCP have mostly turned into spectators.
While Congress is trying to compensate for what it had done to AP by raking up the issue, BJP is seeing to it that Congress won’t gain anything out of the issue and thus delaying the private bill to its best.With national political parties indulging in mud-slinging on one another, the whole episode may turn helpful for TDP which is in power. Political pundits feel that Chanakya Chandrababu Naidu may turn the issue into his favour. As YSRCP is already out, the only left is TDP which may gain from the issue.
BJP has little strength in AP and the chances of the party strengthening in the new state looks bleak. Congress is almost zero in AP given its unilateral division of the state and the party’s revival in the state may not be possible in the near sight. Let’s wait and see who will gain out of the politics surrounding Special Category Status.