Bangaluru: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu said he would attend the swearing-in ceremony of H D Kumaraswamy as Karnataka Chief Minister in Bengaluru today.

“I will go to Bengaluru and speak to leaders of all regional parties to muster support for securing special category status for AP,” Naidu announced at a public meeting in the port city of Visakhapatnam.

He said the Telugu Desam Party played a crucial role in forming the United Front government at the Centre in 1996 and making H D Deve Gowda the Prime Minister.

Naidu said they would exert pressure on the Centre with the support of regional parties for according special category status (scs) for Andhra Pradesh.

“We have been fighting with the Centre over this. You people are fighting here and our MPs are fighting in Parliament. They will continue the fight in the next session of Parliament as well,” he added.

The TDP supremo slammed the BJP for “betraying” the state by not implementing its promise of granting SCS and also not implementing the provisions of the AP Reorganisation Act, 2014.