Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu began his day-long hunger strike in Amaravati on Friday to demand special status for the state.
Coinciding with his birthday, the Dharma Porata Deeksha (Struggle for Justice) against the injustice meted out to the state by the NDA government at the Centre started at 7 am and will end at 7 pm.
The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) president’s fast comes in the wake of the day-long fast observed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on April 12 in protest against the recent logjam of the budget session of Parliament allegedly caused by the Opposition parties.
Naidu has chosen sprawling grounds in front of Acharya Nagarjuna University at Guntur for his protest. Nearly a lakh people are expected to join Naidu.
Apart from the chief minister, all his cabinet colleagues, MPs, MLAs and MLCs and other party functionaries would take part in the fasting.