It was a rude shock for power star and Jana Sena Party chief Pawan Kalyan on Monday when his own party MLA Rapaka Varaprasad defied the party whip and supported the three-capitals bill of YSR Congress party government headed by Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy in the assembly.
Telugu Desam Party president and former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu had done real estate business in the name of Amaravati capital development and made land allotments to his favoured few institutions at a throwaway price.
The YSR Congress party government on Monday announced that the farmers of Amaravati who had given away their lands to the state government during the TDP regime under the Land Pooling Scheme would be compensated suitably in the form of a better package.
It is now official. The YSR Congress party government headed by Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Monday introduced a bill in the state assembly seeking to make Visakhapatnam as the executive capital of Andhra Pradesh.
Even as the Telugu Desam Party and the farmers of Amaravati capital region are strongly protesting the Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy government’s move to shift the administrative capital to Visakhapatnam, the ruling YSRC is planning to give an impression that it is a day of festivities across the state.
As the YSR Congress party government in Andhra Pradesh is getting ready for introducing the bills in the state assembly on Monday to create three capitals for state with administrative capital at Visakhapatnam, the entire Amaravati region has come under the siege by the police.
The countdown for the shifting of executive capital city of Andhra Pradesh from Amaravati to Visakhapatnam has begun, as the state assembly is meeting for a special session on Monday.
As the special session of Assembly is set to meet in a few hours from now on Monday, the State is witnessing a hoard of cane-wielding police teams.
The AP government whip and senior MLA G Srikantha Reddy had pooh-poohed the demands of the Opposition TDP to seek fresh mandate by the Jaganmohan Reddy government on the capital decentralization.
Some of the decisions taken by YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy might not have been taken kindly by the Centre and some foreign investors, but his decision on shifting the executive capital from Amaravati to Visakhapatnam seems to have got the support from some quarters in the US officials.
The latest alliance between Bharatiya Janata Party and Jana Sena Party of actor Pawan Kalyan has created no sensation in Andhra Pradesh politics, as it hardly makes any difference at this stage when the general elections are nearly four and a half years away.
A government order (GO Rt No. 88) issued by the YSR Congress party government in the name of chief secretary Neelam Sawhney, extending the provisions of the National Security Act (NSA) by three months for preventive detention of people suspected of creating troubles for law and order kicked up a lot of heat and dust in the political circles.
The YSR Congress party government in Andhra Pradesh led by chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy has decided firmly to shift the administrative capital of the state from Amaravati to Visakhapatnam.
The ongoing controversy over shifting of administrative capital from Amaravati to north-coastal city of Visakhapatnam by the YSR Congress party government led by chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy seems to have frustrated a section of Kamma community leaders a lot.
The YSR Congress party government in Andhra Pradesh has strongly defended the measures taken by the police department in safeguarding law and order in Amaravati while dealing with the agitation by the farmers.
