Amaravati: Re-coining the 1960s slogan, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Monday said the Kadapa steel plant 'is the state's right' and demanded that the Centre set it up through SAIL at any cost.
The state government was ready to lay a railway track (to the proposed project site) and provide power and water besides extending other incentives, the Chief Minister said.
"We have already reserved the iron ore mines for the steel plant," he added.
Addressing a teleconference with Telugu Desam MPs, MLAs and other senior leaders as the indefinite fast by Rajya Sabha member C M Ramesh and MLC M Ravindranatha Reddy entered the sixth day today, he recalled the 'Visakha Ukku-Andhrula Hakku' slogan of the 1960s, leading to establishment of a steel plant at Visakhapatnam. "Now the war cry Kadapa Ukku-Andhrula Hakku (Kadapa Steel plant is Andhras right) should reverberate across the nation and force the Centre to establish the plant in Kadapa district as promised in the AP Reorganisation Act, 2014," the TDP supremo said. He announced a three-day agitation programme by the TDP, beginning tomorrow, in support of the demand for the plant. Mpost