{"id":15765,"date":"2018-07-24T15:14:03","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T15:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=15765"},"modified":"2018-07-24T15:14:03","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T15:14:03","slug":"bjp-consulted-on-ap-special-status-expected-modi-to-fulfil-commitment-manmohan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=15765","title":{"rendered":"BJP consulted on AP special status, expected Modi to fulfil commitment: Manmohan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former prime minister Manmohan Singh today said he had expected his successor Narendra Modi to fulfil the UPA government&#8217;s commitment on special category status to Andhra Pradesh as it was a promise made after consulting BJP leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the Rajya Sabha during a debate on Andhra Pradesh, Singh said he had made a &#8220;solemn commitment&#8221; on the floor of the House as prime minister of India on February 20, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The assurance on special category status to the &#8220;successor state&#8221; of Andhra Pradesh was given after discussing the issue with Arun Jaitley, then leader of the opposition, and other senior BJP leaders, Singh said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Commitments made on the floor of the House are to be honoured and fulfilled. They are in the nature of an assurance on behalf of Parliament. I had expected my distinguished successor to fulfil the commitment I had made after consultation with his own colleagues,&#8221; the former prime minister said.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former prime minister Manmohan Singh today said he had expected his successor Narendra Modi to fulfil the UPA government&#8217;s commitment on special category status to Andhra Pradesh as it was a promise made after consulting BJP leaders. Addressing the Rajya Sabha during a debate on Andhra Pradesh, Singh said he had made a &#8220;solemn commitment&#8221; on the floor of the House as prime minister of India on February 20, 2014. The assurance on special category status to the &#8220;successor state&#8221; of Andhra Pradesh was given after discussing the issue with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15770,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15765\/revisions\/15770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}