Naidu meets Shah over AP fiscal package

New Delhi, July 16

In a significant development ahead of the presentation of the Union Budget on July 23, TDP chief and Andhra Pradesh CM N Chandrababu Naidu held a late night meeting with Union Home Minister Amit Shah and said the Centre and the state would devise a recovery plan for the state.

This is the first time Naidu has publicly stated plans for agreement on a financial support package for the state, a key reason the TDP extended support to the BJP to form the government at the Centre.

After meeting Shah, Naidu took to X and said, “I met Union Home Minister Amit Shah to apprise him of the devastating condition of finances that Andhra Pradesh had slipped into over the past five years. I also discussed the findings of the four White Papers released, outlining the staggering debt accumulated between FY 2019-24 that spiralled our state’s finances out of control.”