Speaking to media at Anantapuram after a three-day tour of the district, Naidu said, “When the TDP was in power, Reddy had agreed to our moves on Amaravati
Amaravati: Farmers from Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh have written to President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking their intervention in the YSRCP chief Jaganmohan Reddy government’s proposal to set up three capitals in the state.
Farmers have been agitating ever since Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy announced a few days back the governments proposed for three capital plans and an expert panel has submitted a report in this regard. Vishakhapatnam and Kurnool are the two places where the government wants to develop as capitals.
In the letters, farmers have said the government’s decision would impact their lives as they had given 33,000 acres of fertile lands for the ambitious development plan of a new capital after the state’s bifurcation.
“If the Andhra Pradesh government now comes up with two more capitals and shifts base to Vishakhapatnam and Kurnool, we will suffer big losses,” one of the letters quotes. The farmers also attached documents of reports in which Reddy had earlier extended his support to the development of Amaravati.
They requested the prime minister Narendra Modi, who had laid the foundation stone for building the new capital, to stop the state government from going ahead with the proposal.
The opposition parties, including those belonging to the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), Jana Sena Party (JSP), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Communist parties, have extended their support to the farmers’ agitation.
The former chief minister and TDP supremo Chandrababu Naidu accused Jaganmohan Reddy of taking a U-turn on the issue.
Speaking to media at Anantapuram after a three-day tour of the district, Naidu said, “When the TDP was in power, Reddy had agreed to our moves on Amaravati. He had said at least 30,000 acres should be required to build the capital. After becoming the CM, he has taken a complete U-turn. The YSRCP government is creating uncertainty in the minds of people and farmers by making a meaningless statement,”.
Naidu said he had wanted to develop Amaravati as a world-class city the way he had done with Hyderabad. “Today, Reddy is taking the state to the path of doom with his faulty policies and incompetence,”.
BJP spokesperson Lanka Dinakar also took a jibe at Reddy for his changed stance on the issue. “He is making U-turns from every promise that he had made before the elections. Earlier he supported the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) in Parliament, now he is saying he is against the National Register of Citizens (NRC)?”.
On Monday, Jaganmohan Reddy said his government will not support the proposed implementation of the NRC under any condition.
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