Telugu Desam Party president and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu is trying to take maximum political mileage out of the agitation by the farmers of Amaravati region.
With the agitation by farmers of Amaravati capital region against the three-capitals plan getting intensified with every passing day, the YSR Congress party leadership has got into action to control the impending damage to the party at least in this party.
The long-awaited proposal of establishing a steel plant at Kadapa is going to materialise within next three years, thanks to the steely resolve of YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy.
The leaders and cadre from the TDP are now fighting in Amaravati. They are speaking for the farmers of the 29 villages asking about their future, in the light of Jaganmohan Reddy government’s plans to have three capitals.
He is a power star on the silver screen. But in the political arena, he is like a junior artiste. In Andhra Pradesh’s politics, he is seen as a zero star. In 2019, his party has been reduced to a non-entity.
If Telugu Desam Party president and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu had his own reasons in choosing Amaravati as the capital region, YSR Congress party president and present chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy has his own reason for proposing to shift the administrative capital to Visakhapatnam.
Minister for Municipal Administration Botsa Satyaranarayana on Monday lashed out at Telugu Desam Party president and former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu for misleading the people of Amaravati in the name of the capital city.
The next cabinet meeting of the AP government is likely to be held in the new capital Visakhapatnam, if the talk in Amaravati is to be believed.
Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu on Monday alleged that the so-called expert committee headed by retired IAS officer G N Rao had submitted its report exactly in tune with the idea of YSR Congress party president and chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy.
Within a couple of weeks of supporting the Citizenship Amendment Bill in both the Houses of parliament, the YSR Congress party is now strongly opposing the implementation of National Register of Citizens (NRC) in the country.
Chief Minister Jaganmohan Reddy hinted at more ancillary industries coming to Kadapa district with the Steel Plant coming in the district.
The three-capitals plan disclosed in the state assembly by YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy and was later recommended by the G N Rao committee turned out to be an embarrassment to some YSR Congress party legislators.
If speculations doing rounds in the media circles are to be believed, the YSR Congress party government in Andhra Pradesh headed by chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy is planning to do away with the Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Development Authority (APCRDA) completely.
Whether it is going to be the executive capital or the capital of Andhra Pradesh or just one of the three important cities of the State, Visakhapatnam has the potential to be the global city.
It is quite natural that media always looks for controversial issues and sensational developments to attract the readers. Even if there is no big news, they tend to create sensation out of nothing to sustain their readership.