Telugu Desam Party (TDP) supremo N Chandrababu Naidu questioned how Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy could say that he will begin administering the state from Visakhapatnam since the capital city case is now under appeal in the Supreme Court.
According to a statement, he brought up this subject during a public gathering in the Giddaluru hamlet of the Prakasam district as part of the “Edemi Kharma Mana Rashtraniki” (What fate is this for our state?) initiative. The Chief Minister declared on Wednesday that he will relocate his family and begin conducting business in the port city in September.
The Chief Minister made this announcement while addressing a public meeting at Naupada village in Srikakulam district’s Sonthabommali mandal on the sidelines of laying the foundation stones for infrastructure projects. “Visakhapatnam is an acceptable city for everyone in the state. It has the approval of all the people in the state. As part of decentralisation of administration, from this September, your son (Jagan) will set up his family (kapuram) also in Visakhapatnam,” Reddy said.
Meanwhile, Naidu asserted that it was the TDP that always stood by the poor and for the protection of the state, calling on the people to defeat Reddy in the next assembly polls due in 2024. Addressing the people of Giddaluru, the former CM exuded confidence that the TDP would return to power and that the Veligonda project would be his top priority. Naidu said that police should arrest the actual culprits who murdered Y. S. Vivekananda Reddy and not those who post comments on social media. Vivekananda, the younger brother of late Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, was found dead at his residence in Pulivendula on the night of March 15, 2019, weeks before the State Assembly elections.