The YSR Congress MP said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had promised in 2014 that Andhra Pradesh would be given special category status but it was yet to be fulfilled, and requested the government to sanction it "without any delay".
On his 69th birthday, Naidu chose not to celebrate his birthday and sat on a fast instead to protest against the alleged injustice meted out to the state due to the "non-implementation" of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014.
The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) President will be staging the protest on his 68th birthday to pressurise the Central government to fulfill all commitments made at the time of bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh in 2014.
TDP MPs were detained by Delhi Police today after they staged protests outside Prime Minister's residence at Lok Kalyan Marg for special category status for Andhra Pradesh.
"There should be a limit to political acrimony. He is doing politics over the matter of development. He should not go to the extent of saying that the BJP is attacking Andhra," Javadekar said.
Hitting out at the Congress, Shah said the party not only mismanaged the bifurcation but also showed zero sensitivity towards the Telugu people.
BJP general secretary Ram Madhav told reporters that the Centre had done a lot for the state and was willing to do more, asserting that his party will explain its position to its people.
The BJP on Friday said the exit of TDP from the NDA was "inevitable after its mischievous propaganda against the Centre" and asserted that the latter's exit is "a timely opportunity" for the saffron party to grow in Andhra Pradesh.
Terming the TDP's decision a "win for democracy", Reddy asserted his party would continue to fight for Special Category Status (SCS) for Andhra Pradesh.
Andhra Pradesh's ruling party had yesterday offered to back the YSR Congress' no-confidence motion but has now said it withdraws the support as it smells a nexus between it and the BJP.
The party also moved a no-confidence motion against the Modi government over the injustice meted out to the state.
In the backdrop of the Centre's refusal to grant special category status to Andhra Pradesh, the YSR Congress today gave a notice for moving a no-confidence motion against the BJP-led NDA government.
The Telugu Desam Party, which pulled out of the Modi government this week, today said its alliance with the BJP was still on, though it was 'severely hurt' by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's remarks on assistance to Andhra Pradesh.
TDP on Thursday pulled out of the Modi government but kept a window open for rapprochement by deciding to remain part of the NDA.
Opposition Congress and TMC were up in arms against the government over the Rs 12,700 crore fraud at country's second largest PSU lender PNB and continued with their vociferous protests in the House.
TDP MPs and Congress member KVP Ramachandra Rao held posters demanding special status to Andhra Pradesh to make up for the deficit arising from carving out of Telangana.
The two TDP ministers in the government -- Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Rahu and Y S Chowdary -- met Prime Minister Narendra Modi this evening and handed over their resignation letters.
Party spokesperson GVL Narasimha Rao said the BJP sees the resignations of two TDP ministers as an inevitable outcome driven by the regional party's "political compulsions" ahead of the assembly polls in the state next year.
Their resignations came a day after TDP chief and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu announced that the party's ministers will quit the central government in protest against its refusal to grant special category status to the state.
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