If the reports coming from the power corridors of Amaravati are to be believed, the officials of the state legislative council have turned down the orders of council chairman Mohd Ahmed Sharif referring two crucial bills on the state capital issue to the select committee.
At a time when the anti-establishment media in Andhra Pradesh has stepped up its campaign in favour of Amaravati and against the YSR Congress party government’s move to create three capitals, Sakshi, the mouthpiece of the YSRC has come out with an interesting banner story in support of decentralisation.
Strange are the ways of Telugu Desam Party’s legislative council member in Andhra Pradesh and former minister Dokka Manikya Varaprasad.
YSR Congress party appears to have given up its diplomatic stance in the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act, National Register of Citizens and National Population Register and decided to fight it out with the Bharatiya Janata Party.
The sudden meeting of former Supreme Court judge Justice Jasti Chalameshwar with YSR Congress party president and chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy in Hyderabad raised many an eyebrow.
Hindupur assembly constituency in Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh, considered to be the bastion of the Telugu Desam Party in general and family of party founder N T Rama Rao in particular, revolted for the first time against the family and the party.
At last, former joint director of Central Bureau of Investigation and retired IPS officer V V Lakshminarayana has resigned from Jana Sena Party headed by power star Pawan Kalyan.
Surprisingly and shockingly for his critics, there are two chief ministers from the BJP-ruled states, who are supporting Andhra Pradesh chief minister Jagan Mohan Reddy.
The leakage of a portion of experts committee headed by G N Rao on the Andhra Pradesh capital issue to a select group of media has generated a lot of heat and dust in the political circles.
The way pro-Telugu Desam Party media carried a big story on the constraints for Visakhapatnam being declared as the administrative capital as mentioned by the five-member experts committee headed by retired IAS officer G N Rao was definitely an embarrassment to the YS Jagan Mohan Reddy government, if not a setback.
The decision of the YSR Congress party government led by chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy to abolish the state legislative council may not face much hurdles from the National Democratic Alliance government at the Centre, if the sources in the national capital of Delhi are to be believed.
The lead stories carried by pro-Telugu Desam Party media and channels on Wednesday over the report of the six-member expert committee headed by retired IAS officer G N Rao on vulnerability of Visakhapatnam as the administrative capital of Andhra Pradesh pushed the Jagan Mohan Reddy government on the defensive.
Former bureaucrat and head of the expert committee that suggested decentralization of administration, G N Rao, had ridiculed the media reports quoting his committee as advised against Visakhapatnam for the capital.
Notwithstanding the temporary hurdles created in the formation of three capitals for Andhra Pradesh, with the bills getting referred to the select committee and the high court taking up hearing on the petitions stalling the capital shift, the YSRC government is going ahead as per the plan in taking steps to make Visakhapatnam as the administrative capital.
Till the other day, the opposition parties, particularly the Telugu Desam Party, and their supporting media, had been attacking the six-member expert panel headed by retired IAS officer G N Rao.
