Special Category states would get funds from the centrally-sponsored schemes and external aid in the ratio of 90 per cent grants and 10 per cent loans, while other states get 30 per cent of their funds as grants. Besides, they would be given tax breaks and excise duty concessions to attract industries.

Sources say: The state unit has already sent a message to the top brass requesting a cabinet berth for at least one Lok Sabha member of the party from the state.

The NDA routed YSRCP, winning a brute majority of 164 Assembly and 21 Lok Sabha seats. Whereas, the YSRCP won just four Lok Sabha seats.

As part of a seat sharing deal among NDA partners, TDP contested 144 Assembly and 17 Lok Sabha constituencies while BJP put up candidates in six Lok Sabha and 10 Assembly seats.

Twenty-one of the 28 villages of the picturesque Kotia cluster are claimed by both states and a case over the dispute has been pending with the Supreme Court since 1968.

"The Prime Minister is expected to land at Rajamahendravaram airport around noon. He will address his first meeting here at 3:30 pm and then proceed to Anakapalli for the second meeting scheduled at 5:30 pm," a BJP leader said.

Prime Minister Modi is anticipated to touch down at Rajamahendravaram airport around noon. His inaugural address will commence at 3.30 pm in Rajamahendravaram, followed by the subsequent engagement in Anakapalli at 5.30 pm, as per a local BJP official.