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Amit Shah in Andhra Pradesh LIVE updates: TDP, Congress workers protest with black…

BJP national president Amit Shah will be in Andhra Pradesh on Thursday to launch his party’s exercise to contact beneficiaries of various welfare programmes of its governments at the Centre and in states. He will later head to Karnataka to attend other political programmes.

From Andhra Pradesh, Shah will launch his party’s nationwide exercise to contact over 22 crore beneficiaries of various welfare programmes of its governments at the Centre and in states as part of its campaign for the coming Lok Sabha election. He will kick off the campaign from Andhra Pradesh’s Rajahmundry city, the party said in a statement on Wednesday.

Shah will address party workers from four adjacent Lok Sabha constituencies, the statement said.

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12:50 pm IST

‘NDA govt backed out from promise of special status to Andhra’

Chalasani Srinavas, president of Pratyeka Hoda Sadhana Samithi, a committee for Andhra Pradesh’s special status, said he will go round all states including Gujarat ahead of elections to “expose the betrayal of NDA government by backing out from its promise of providing special status to Andhra Pradesh”.

12:40 pm IST

TDP, Congress workers protest with black flags

TDP, Congress workers greeted BJP president Amit Shah with black flags protesting over denial of special status to Andhra Pradesh on his arrival in Rajahmundry.

11:15 am IST

Amit Shah to launch Labharthi Sampark Abhiyan from Andhra Pradesh

BJP president Amit Shah will on Thursday launch from Andhra Pradesh his party’s nation-wide exercise to contact over 22 crore beneficiaries of various welfare programmes of its governments at the Centre and in states as part of its campaign for the coming Lok Sabha election.

The party aims to cover every beneficiary household under the programme as it seeks to retain power at the Centre under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership.

Source: HindustanTimes