Andhra Pradesh government on Thursday denied reports in a section of media that South Korean auto major Kia Motors is planning to move out its car manufacturing plant out of the state.
The story carried in the national media on Thursday that Kia Motors, one of the largest automobile companies in the world, is going to shift its India plant from Anantapur to Chennai has come as a rude shock to many.
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Despite there is opposition from political parties and protests from the select residents of the capital villages and cases pending in the High Court, it appears that chief minister Y S Jaganmohan Reddy is firm on having his three capitals becoming a reality.
Telugu Desam Party president and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu always claims to be a man of dignity, decorum and sensible talk.
Former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu's hopes of the Centre's intervention to prevent shifting of the state capital from Amaravati were dashed with the BJP-led government making it clear that it is the prerogative of the state to decide on its capital.
Of late, power star and Jana Sena Party chief Pawan Kalyan has been busy acting in films round the clock to make some quick money to feed his family and pay school fees for his children.
Strongly defending his decision to shift the administrative capital of Andhra Pradesh from Amaravati to Visakhapatnam, Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy on Wednesday exuded confidence that the capital city would be able to compete with Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Chennai in a decade.
YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy categorically said on Wednesday that Visakhapatnam is the best bet for development as an administrative capital at a far lesser cost than Amaravati.
All these years, the Narendra Modi government has been refusing to grant special category status to Andhra Pradesh on the pretext that the 14th finance commission had not recommended the same since it did not distinguish between normal states and those with special category status.
The agitation by farmers of Amaravati has entered 50th day on Wednesday.
TDP chief, Leader of Opposition in Assembly and former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu is now asking for referendum on Amaravati.
YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Tuesday reiterated that there is no point in spending thousands of crores on Amaravati alone that would benefit none and generate any employment for anyone.
Even as the Telugu Desam Party, Bharatiya Janata Party and Progressive Democratic Front suggested the names of their respective party members in the state legislative council for constituting the select committee to study the two bills related to the state capital, the YSR Congress party refused to be part of the exercise.
Even as the TDP is trying to move earth and heaven over Amaravati issue, projecting it as global issue, the Central government gave a slap on its face on Tuesday.
The written statement by Union minister of state for home affairs Nityanand Rai in Lok Sabha declaring that Andhra Pradesh has every right to choose the location of its capital has come as a big disappointment and shock to the farmers of Amaravati, who have been pinning their hopes on the Central intervention in the capital issue.
