In Andhra Pradesh, a fierce dispute has erupted between the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) and the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) over who should get credit for key state projects. The fight heats up after the 2024 Assembly elections. The TDP praised its investment-friendly work and accused YSRCP of neglect in infrastructure. Then Google announced a $15 billion AI data centre campus in Visakhapatnam, the largest outside the U.S., to be finished by 2030. The TDP linked this deal to its strong governance and policies under leader Nara Lokesh. But YSRCP pushed back saying it laid the foundation between 2019 and 2024 by allotting land and clearing bureaucratic hurdles. This tug-of-war is called 'credit chori' by the YSRCP. The new airport at Bhogapuram stirred more debate. The TDP claimed the project started during its rule, with their MP holding the Civil Aviation portfolio. The YSRCP responded that the project gained speed only after Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy re-laid the foundation stone in 2023 and completed key clearances. Even farmer-related initiatives became battlegrounds. YSRCP said its land resurvey helped issue new passbooks to farmers, while the TDP criticized the passbooks for showing Mr. Reddy’s photo and replaced them with ones bearing the state emblem, calling it an error-fixing reform. The YSRCP is clearly eager to shake off criticism of holding back development and wants credit for advancing big projects stalled earlier. The TDP insists it set the stage for these breakthroughs. As both parties claim success, the real winner will be decided by the people of Andhra Pradesh.