Hyderbad, April 17 -- The Andhra Pradesh government on Wednesday urged the Centre to extend special financial assistance to the state to overcome post-bifurcation challenges, such as revenue loss due to the shifting of Hyderabad to Telangana, and also restore the state's financial position after alleged financial mismanagement in the previous YSR Congress party regime between 2019 and 2024.

Naidu made a presentation of the state's financial position before the members of the 16th finance commission headed by its chairman Arvind Panagariya at Amaravati, and later submitted a representation to them.

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