In a surprising development, the YSR Congress party government in Andhra Pradesh on Monday put on hold the issuance of new accreditation cards to be issued for media persons once in two years.
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At a time when the farmers of Amaravati capital region have been looking up to the Centre to intervene and stop the proposed shifting of administrative capital to Visakhapatnam, here comes a news from BJP national spokesperson G V L Narasimha Rao.
The Jagan Mohan Reddy-led YSR Congress Party storming to power in Andhra Pradesh with a landslide win, its sweeping moves, some of them controversial and the uncertainty over the future of state capital Amaravati dominated the events during 2019.
In a shocking development one more MLA had jumped out of the TDP’s 22-member bag on Monday, even as Chandrababu Naidu and his son Lokesh are busy planning for a battle against the government.
It looks like the days of senior Telugu Desam Party legislator and former minister Ganta Srinivasa Rao in the party are numbered.
The much-talked about insider trade in the new capital Amaravati by the TDP is now proved in the report of the cabinet sub-committee.
When Andhra Pradesh cabinet led by YSR Congress party president and chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy deferred the decision on shifting administrative capital from Amaravati to Visakhapatnam three days ago, it raised quite a few eyebrows.
There have been two conflicting and contradicting arguments these days against the present Akndhra Pradesh government’s plans to trifurcate the capital – legislative capital in Amaravati, executive capital in Visakhapatnam and judicial capital in Kurnool.
As announced two days ago, the Andhra Pradesh government had constituted a high power committee to study the recommendations of the two committees on the capital proposal. The government had issued a GO on Sunday constituting the committee.
Had Jagan Mohan Reddy as the then leader of the oppositionopposed Amaravati as the Andhra Pradesh capital, we would not have given our lands, feels Koteshwar Rao, one of the farmers who gave their lands.
YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy was accorded an unprecedented welcome in Visakhapatnam, notwithstanding the fact that his cabinet could not take any decision on shifting the administrative capital from Amaravati to Visakhpatnam.
As expected, former chief priest of Lord Venkateshwara temple of Tirumala Dr A V Ramana Deekshitulu is back in his post, thanks to his intense lobbying with the powers-that-be.
The TTD had decided to file a defamation suit against Andhra Jyothi for carrying wrong and malicious news about the temple. A decision was taken at the board meeting of the TTD in Tirumala on Friday.
Bharatiya Janata Party, which is making a desperate attempt to gain footing in Andhra Pradesh, is trying to take maximum advantage of the ongoing agitation by farmers of Amaravati capital region against proposed shifting of administrative capital to Visakhapatnam.
The YSR Congress party government might have postponed its decision to shift the executive capital from Amaravati to Visakhapatnam for the time being, but the authorities have already been making arrangements for running the administration from the port city.
