HYDERABAD: Chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy’s cabinet on Monday approved a proposal to possess three capitals for Andhra Pradesh , amid protests by thousands of farmers of the Amaravati region and by Telugu Desam Party.
Hundreds of farmers were taken into custody by the police in Amaravati once they attempted to get siege on the assembly where a session was convened to pass the Bills on capitals. the govt has proposed to retain Amaravati because the legislative capital, while making Visakhapatnam the house for executive and Kurnool the judicial capital.
Farmers of Amaravati had pooled around 34,000 acres for the capital city following a call by Reddy’s predecessor, N Chandrababu Naidu of the TDP.
TDP Lok Sabha member Jayadev Galla was among those that were arrested in Amaravati along side the farmers. The police also took into preventive custody several opposition leaders including another TDP MP, Kesineni Nani.
Earlier within the day, the cupboard chaired by Reddy approved the proposal on three capital cities aimed toward “decentralized and inclusive development of all regions of the state”. It also approved repealing the Capital Region Development Authority (CRDA) Act and establish the Amaravati Metropolitan Development Authority.
“The logical solution would be to get emphasis on distributed development and decentralised administration to make sure that the fruits of the socioeconomic progress are enjoyed equally by people of varied regions,” said the Bill placed before the assembly for tis approval.
The YSR Congress government has decided to supply financial packages to the farmers of the Amaravati region who had pooled the land for the capital city construction.
The ruling YSR Congress has 151MLAs within the 175-member assembly, while the TDP has 23. But the TDP features a majority with 28 members within the 58-member legislature , where the YSR Congress has just 9 members with the balance being distributed among other parties including the BJP.
On the recommendation of speaker Thammineni Sitaram, the assembly selected a search into alleged large-scale irregularities and trading over land transactions in Amaravati, before the then TDP government selected it for the capital city.
The TDP countered the allegation and demanded a judicial probe, not just into land transactions within the Amaravati region but also in Visakhapatnam during the past eight months of the YSR Congress regime.
This Artiacle taken refrence from economictimes
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