The way pro-Telugu Desam Party media carried a big story on the constraints for Visakhapatnam being declared as the administrative capital as mentioned by the five-member experts committee headed by retired IAS officer G N Rao was definitely an embarrassment to the YS Jagan Mohan Reddy government, if not a setback.
The decision of the YSR Congress party government led by chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy to abolish the state legislative council may not face much hurdles from the National Democratic Alliance government at the Centre, if the sources in the national capital of Delhi are to be believed.
The lead stories carried by pro-Telugu Desam Party media and channels on Wednesday over the report of the six-member expert committee headed by retired IAS officer G N Rao on vulnerability of Visakhapatnam as the administrative capital of Andhra Pradesh pushed the Jagan Mohan Reddy government on the defensive.
Former bureaucrat and head of the expert committee that suggested decentralization of administration, G N Rao, had ridiculed the media reports quoting his committee as advised against Visakhapatnam for the capital.
Notwithstanding the temporary hurdles created in the formation of three capitals for Andhra Pradesh, with the bills getting referred to the select committee and the high court taking up hearing on the petitions stalling the capital shift, the YSRC government is going ahead as per the plan in taking steps to make Visakhapatnam as the administrative capital.
Till the other day, the opposition parties, particularly the Telugu Desam Party, and their supporting media, had been attacking the six-member expert panel headed by retired IAS officer G N Rao.
The Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly had adopted a resolution seeking repeal or abolition of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Council. The resolution was sent to the Parliament through the Central government.
YSR Congress party government in Andhra Pradesh led by chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy seems to be acting in a breakneck speed to get the state legislative council abolished at the earliest.
The sensational case of YSR Congress party leader and former MP Y S Vivekananda Reddy’s murder at his own residence in Pulivendula in Kadapa district on March 15 last year has still remained a mystery.
YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy’s welfare programmes might not have generated much interest in the national media, which is largely interested in picking holes in his governance.
Telugu Desam Party president and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu has been crying foul over the resolution introduced by the YSR Congress party government in the assembly seeking to abolish the state legislative council.
As expected, the Andhra Pradesh state legislative assembly on Monday adopted a resolution abolishing the state legislative council, after a day-long discussion.
After facing a setback in the CBI special court which refused to give him exemption from personal appearances in the court in connection with the quid pro quo cases pending against him, YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy approached the high court on Monday.
TDP supremo N Chandrababu Naidu had played a political game to fix Jagan Mohan Reddy.
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Andhra Pradesh Cabinet meeting which held here on Monday resolved to dissolve the Legislative Council.
