Amaravati sole capital, Vizag fin hub: Naidu
PM Modi to attend swearing-in ceremony today
Andhra Pradesh’s chief minister-designate N Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday declared that Amaravati is the state capital.
Addressing a meeting of the newly-elected MLAs of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), which elected him as the leader, he made it clear that his government would not play with the state’s future in the name of three state capitals and would continue development of Amaravati as the state capital.
“Even after 10 years we are not in a position to say where our state capital is,” he said, slamming the previous government of YSR Congress Party for putting a halt to the development of Amaravati as the state capital.
In 2019, the Jagan Mohan Reddy-led government reversed the decision by the earlier TDP government to develop Amaravati as the state capital and announced that three state capitals would be developed.
The YSRCP government had mooted Visakhapatnam as the administrative capital, Kurnool as the judicial capital and Amaravati as the legislative capital.
“Our capital is Amaravati,” declared Naidu, who is set to take oath as the
Chief Minister on Wednesday.
Naidu assured that Visakhapatnam will be developed as a financial capital and a modern city and Kurnool will be developed in all respects.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, other central ministers, leaders of NDA partners and Chief Ministers of some states will be attending the swearing-in, to be held at Kesarapalli IT Park near Gannavaram Airport.
Meanwhile, in a meeting of Telugu Desam Party, Janasena
and BJP legislators, held in Vijayawada, the MLAs elected Naidu unanimously after Janasena chief Pawan Kalyan proposed him as the leader, who was also backed by state BJP chief D Purandeswari. Consequently, Naidu emerged as the chief ministerial candidate.
Earlier in the morning, Naidu was unanimously elected as TDP legislative party leader, TDP leader K Atchen Naidu said.
Similarly, Janasena founder Pawan Kalyan was elected as the party's floor leader in the assembly.