Visakhapatnam To Be Andhra Pradesh’s New Capital: What Chief Minister Jagan Reddy Said
Andhra Pradesh’s capital will be Visakhapatnam, and Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy will move there “in the months to come,” he announced today. This is despite the High Court’s ruling last year that it cannot pass legislation for that; the other two capitals are Kurnool and the current capital Amaravati.
The YSRCP government of Mr. Reddy has appealed the case, which is currently before the Supreme Court. The claim about Visakhapatnam was made by Mr. Reddy, who has continuously favoured the coastal city as the Executive Capital while promoting an investment convention that would be held there. He has already stated that he would start there.
“Here I am, to invite you, to Visakhapatnam, which is going to be our capital in the days to come,” he said, announcing the global summit scheduled for March 3 and 4. He did not set out a timeline, but added, “I myself will be shifting over to Visakhapatnam in the months to come.”
Hyderabad was chosen as the new state’s capital when Telangana was split off from Andhra Pradesh in 2014.
Amaravati, in the Vijayawada-Guntu region on the banks of the river Krishna, was to become the new capital, according to the Andhra government of 2015, which was led by TDP’s N Chandrababu Naidu and functioning out of Hyderabad in the interim. The state then intended to have three capital cities in 2020: Kurnool for the judiciary, Amaravati for the legislative, and Visakhapatnam for the administration.
Amaravati is the site of an alleged land scam, for which Mr. Reddy’s party, the YSRCP, has called for an investigation against Mr. Naidu, the outgoing chief minister.
The coastal city of Visakhapatnam, frequently shortened to Vizag, is the largest and most populated city in Andhra Pradesh and is preferred as the state’s capital by Chief Minister Jagan Reddy. It is India’s second largest city on the east coast after Chennai, the state capital of Tamil Nadu.
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