On Monday, demanding special status for his state and fulfilment of commitments made by the Centre under the AP Reorganisation Act, 2014, Andhra Pradesh CM N Chandrababu Naidu is on a day-long hunger strike in the national capital from 8 am to 8 pm. Naidu had reached Delhi on Sunday and is reportedly staying at Andhra Pradesh Bhawan. Naidu is staging the protest at the Andhra Pradesh Bhavan.
The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) Chief along with his ministers, party MLAs, MLCs and MPs, has started ‘Dharma Porata Deeksha’ (a day-long protest for justice). Members of state employee associations, social and student organisations are expected to accompany him in the day long fast. National Conference's Farooq Abdullah and Nationalist Congress Party's Majeed Memon have also shown their support for the ‘Dharna’ by joining Chandrababu Naidu's day-long hunger strike at Delhi's Andhra Pradesh Bhawan.
At Delhi's Andhra Pradesh Bhavan from where he is protesting, Chandrababu Naidu said, "If you won’t fulfill our demands, we know how to get them fulfilled. This is about self respect of people of Andhra Pradesh. Whenever there is an attack on our self-respect, we won't tolerate it."
CM Naidu will be submitting a memorandum to President of India Ram Nath Kovind on February 12.