The TDP is caught in a toughest situation with Jaganmohan Reddy making a statement on three capitals for the State, diluting Amaravati’s importance.
YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy’s statement in the assembly suggesting three capital cities – executive capital at Visakhapatnam, legislative capital at Amaravati and judicial capital at Kurnool – in place of a single cost-intensive mega capital at Amaravati, has become the biggest topic for debate in the media.
The ruling YSR Congress had exposed the opposition TDP in the Assembly on Amaravati deals.
The previous Telugu Desam Party government in Andhra Pradesh headed by N Chandrababu Naidu had proposed to develop a grand capital city at Amaravati in a huge extent of 53,000 acres at a cost of Rs 1.09 lakh crore.
If YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy’s statement in the state assembly becomes a reality, Andhra Pradesh will have three capital cities in three different regions to have a regional balance and a decentralised administration.
As many as nine legislators belonging to Telugu Desam Party were suspended from the state assembly for a day for obstructing the speech of finance minister Buggana Rajendranath Reddy on the discussion over Amaravati capital issue.
TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu had established a set of rules in and around Amaravati in the last four years.
The ongoing winter session of the Andhra Pradesh state assembly is witnessing heated debates on various issues.
It is a known fact that popular political strategist and founder of Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) Prashant Kishor has played a crucial role in working out strategies for the victory of YSR Congress party led by Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy in the April 11 assembly elections in the state.
It looks like YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy is not in a hurry to decide on whether to continue the capital city at Amaravati or not.
Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal had asked the AP chief minister Jaganmohan Reddy asking him to send a copy of the AP Disha Act 2019.
YSR Congress party president and chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy has taken a revolutionary decision to curtail sale and consumption of liquor in the state, knowing fully well that it would result in loss of revenue to the state exchequer in a big way.
TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu’s back office is creative as it comes out with creative and innovative ideas to keep Naidu in the limelight, particularly when he is in opposition.
Several “investors”, mostly associated with the TDP, are now most worried lost these days. The worry has several reasons and two of them are the major.
The banner story published by Sakshi on Monday reflects the sorry state of affairs in the state financial position and has apparently been written to explain to the people how the government is struggling to the crippled financial position of the state back on tracks.