BJP leader and Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu slammed the Congress for not including the Special Category Status issue in the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act and for failing to get approval from the Planning Commission.
"Having kept quite (and) being silent when Andhra Pradesh division has taken place, why these leaders who are writing letters have not raised the issue of special status in Parliament. Straight question?" Naidu asked.
Terming the opposition's protests of burning effigies of the Prime Minister as "totally uncalled for", Naidu said that Congress was "silent" over carving out a separate state for ten years of being in power, which it had promised in 2004.
"Ten years, you were silent and now within 10 months you are becoming violent, burning the effigies of the Prime Minister, which is totally uncalled for," he said.
Gandhi, yesterday, wrote to Modi pressing for early grant of special category status for Andhra Pradesh, telling him about "disappointment and pain" among people over the Centre's "failure" to honour its commitments.