The ruling party leader and CM Chandrababu Naidu is garnering enough blame for public and oppositions as his claims of friendship and influence with centre is not showing any sync or relevance with the latest railway budget.

Though it was totally unexpected about Railway minister Suresh prabhu showing empty hands rather announcing the new railway zone for AP with Waltair division as headquarters joining Rayapur to Visakhapatnam. It was a long pending dream for the people of Andhra and one more financial year budget is out without a topic of new railway zone.

While the public and civil organisations are highly disappointed with this decision of centre about the most deserved division, Chandrababu with his new promises became a laughing riot. Chandrababu is promising and is confident about getting the new railway zone very soon, when the same was not mentioned in annual budget.

After bagging all the blame for his unwanted hype and hungama about capital, his unfulfilled promises, the fresh claims for new railway zone became more than joke. Looks like the days are over for exclusive friendship of Chandrababu with Centre.

Looks like the glorious honeymoon between TDP and BJP is in its final stages. Looking at BJP’s response to AP’s long pending demands and needs with the recently introduced railway budget and today’s union budget, cracks in the TDP-BJP friendship are seen wide and clear.

Days before the introduction of budget in Lok Sabha today, Chandrababu made repeated requests to Modi and Jaitley for additional funds to the 7 backward districts in the state.

Here are some of the demands made by Chandrababu to the centre:

Sanction of subsidies for investments in Amaravati

Setting up of infrastructure in the capital city

Funds for the Vijayawada and Vizag metro projects

The long pending demand of special status for the state

4,000 crore for Amaravati construction

4,000 crore for Polavaram project

3,500 crore for the development of national institutions in the state

Even after understanding AP’s justified demands, the BJP government offered peanuts to AP in the union budget. Following are the funds allocated to the state in for the fiscal year 2016-17:

Polavaram Project – Rs. 100 Crore

Vijayawada Metro – Rs.100 Crore

IIT – Rs. 20 crore

Tirupati IIT – Rs. 40 crore

IIM Visakhapatnam – Rs. 30 crore

NIT Tadepalligudem – Rs. 40 crore

Tirupati IISCR – Rs. 40 crore

Visakhapatnam Steel Plant – Rs.1678 crore

Visakhapatnam Port Trust – Rs. 231.61 crore

Central University – Rs. 1 crore

Girijan University – Rs. 1 crore

The total budget allotted to AP amounts to Rs. 24,637.36 Crore where as the state government submitted proposal worth Rs. 1.8 lakh crore.

Time and again, there have been several reports about the cracks in the friendship between the Janasena chief Pawan Kalyan and Chandrababu and Modi, whom he vouched for in the 2014 polls. Even Pawan was upset with Chandrababu during Amaravati land acquisition and with Modi for not keeping his special status promise.

And the latest is that Pawan is hugely upset with Modi and Chandrababu once again. Pawan, who is busy with Sardaar’s shooting, followed the yesterday’s union budget and was let down by the BJP government offering peanuts to Telugu states. Pawan was hoping that the Modi government will make up for their special status deceit by allocating a large amount of funds to AP.

Also, Pawan has been closely observing the YSRCP defections to the TDP and is reportedly miffed with the way Babu is openly going all out with the crossovers. Pawan is a man of principles and he himself admired Babu for his appreciative political acumen in the past, but the defections are something which he isn’t happy with.

With both his trusted friends following their own dubious ways, it is apparent that Pawan will part ways with them and their ways of politics. Meanwhile, Pawan has already started an ambitious plan of procuring a huge amount of money to take on Babu and BJP in the 2019 general elections.