NEW DELHI (TIP): When Telugu Desam Party chief N Chandrababu Naidu met Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in the capital on May 30, he was promised full support on his wish list for the Seemandhra regions, which will form the residual Andhra Pradesh when the state of Telangana is born next week. The Planning Commission, Jaitley assured the 64-year-old TDP leader, is already looking into the proposal to grant the special category status to Seemandhra.

“After the division, there is a resource constraint which the successor state of Andhra Pradesh will suffer from, primarily because Hyderabad will be a part of Telangana. When the bifurcation bill was being passed in parliament in February, we had raised the issue of financially supporting Seemandhra,” Mr Jaitley told reporters after meeting the TDP chief.