Update on Protest At Visakhapatnam for Special Status

The demand for Special Category Status of Andhra Pradesh is gaining momentum in Vishakapatnam. The main reason of protest is that it was charged by Janasena President Pawan Kalyan and YSR Congress Chief Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy. Pawan Kalyan has been leading the charge for Special Category Status for Andhra Pradesh, assert that when the Congress led UPA Government bifurcated Andhra Pradesh in June 2014, most of the resources were allotted to the new state, while the old one was given tread motherly treatment. Pawan even counseled Andhra politicians to take a page out of Jallikattu protests in Tamil Nadu to ask for Special Category Status for the state from the Centre.

Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy now started posit more strain on this matter. He was refused to enter to the city by authorities at Visakhapatnam airport, Jagan started sit-down protest at Visakhapatnam airport. Police stoped several protesters who were concern on issue in the city. 

Even as many messages are been circulated on social media on how much Andhra Pradesh had lost to Telangana during the bifurcation, and how much the state would benefit if given special status. Protests have been taking place in Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada, Guntur, Tirupati and many other places, even though Section 144 placed. The stirrer have been demanding that the centre should announce special status, instead of special package for the state.