Amaravati: TDP national president and former Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday demanded Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy to withdraw his proposal to form three capitals. Naidu said nobody can deny the fact that Amaravati is located at a central point in AP with six districts and 12 parliamentary constituencies on one side and another six districts and 12 parliamentary constituencies on another side.
Addressing the “Jana Bheri” public meeting organised by Amaravati Parirakshana JAC in the Capital City area, the TDP chief said that even the media surveys witnessed 80% respondents giving their choice for Amaravati, whereas the Chief Minister was going ahead with his dangerous three cards game with the farmers who sacrificed over 34,000 acres of their ancestral lands. Without any credibility, Jagan Reddy was now saying at the BC Sankranthi meeting that Amaravati agitation was being run by businessmen with real estate interests. In fact, the CM was himself a misguided businessman, bent on destroying the Capital City and the state as well, he said.
Chandrababu Naidu deplored that over Rs10,000 crore was spent already for developing basic infrastructure in the Capital City area, but the “atrocious ministers and MLAs were describing it as a desert and a burial ground”. The Chief Minister gave kisses to the voters at the time of elections, but now he was giving blow after blow to all sections of people. In course of time, Amaravati would have the potential to create wealth of Rs 1 lakh crore to Rs 2 lakh crore for the people of the entire state. No sane person would take the decision to shift Capital from Amaravati to Visakhapatnam, he said.
Stating that the YCP regime did not do anything even for North Coastal Andhra, Naidu said that not a single industry was brought in the past 19 months nor a single road was laid in the three districts there. Whereas, the TDP regime worked hard to bring in development in North Andhra, Rayalaseema and Coastal districts on an equal footing. The Singapore government was known for its credibility and it came forward to take part in the development of Amaravati. Even this highly valued partnership was set aside by the Jagan Reddy regime.
Naidu said that he thought of developing Andhra Pradesh into a number one state in the entire country by 2029, but the voters preferred to believe in the “jugglery words” of Jagan Reddy. “The people voted for the YCP in a sort of hysteria and now all sections of society were paying a heavy price for blindly trusting the Chief Minister. Jagan Reddy was plundering the state with wholesale corruption at the top level, and his Ministers and MLAs were resorting to retail corruption at district and local levels. The BCs, SCs, STs and Muslim minorities have come under unprecedented attacks under this regime,” he said.