Amaravati will remain the AP capital: TDP-JSP chiefs

Vijayawada: TDP national president N Chandrababu Naidu and Jana Sena Party president K Pawan Kalyan on Sunday declared that Amaravati will be further developed as the capital of Andhra Pradesh and promised to do justice to the farmers who surrendered the lands for establishing the capital during the previous regime.

They blamed the YSRCP for laying the foundation for destruction of Amaravati by dismantling the Praja Vedika, the hall built by CRDA as the durbar hall to hold meetings next to the official residence of Chief Minister during the erstwhile TDP government. In his address, Pawan Kalyan said he is strongly favouring the developing of Amaravati as a people's capital and both JSP and TDP once formed the government will do justice to five crore Telugu people of Andhra Pradesh. Participating in Sankranti celebrations at Mandadam in Amaravati along with Pawan Kalyan, the TDP chief said that Amaravati, which is the capital of deities, is being persecuted by demons. The Sankranthi celebrations organised in the name of 'Telugu Jatiki Swarna Yugam-Sankranti Sankalpam' at a school in the capital region. Making it clear that the public welfare rule will again begin here as Amaravati, Naidu said that the primary goal of the TDP-JSP combine is to create assets in the State. The farmers in the capital region of Amaravati gave a warm and traditional reception to both leaders. Later both of them burnt the copies of certain GOs issued by the YSRCP government.

In his message, Naidu said, "The future is again going to be ours as Amaravati is soon going to be the seat of administration." Stating that generally people burn the useless articles in the bonfire as part of the festival celebrations, the former Chief Minister said that the development of the State has retarded due to the inefficient rule and destructive policies of the government headed by Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy. Expressing serious concern that Amaravati has been totally neglected after change in the government, he regretted that the farmers who gave their lands under the Land Pooling Scheme (LPS) for building the capital, are the worst-sufferers.

Naidu expressed confidence that the countdown for the YSRCP government has begun and stated that Amaravati will again turn as a centre to generate assets to transform the whole State into a fertile land. The steep hike in prices of essential commodities has been haunting the poor, he said adding the ruling dispensation has pushed the Anganwadi workers onto the roads without solving their problems.

Making a promise that the TDP-JSP combine will take the responsibility to provide employment to the jobless, Naidu said that steps will be initiated by the coming TDP-JSP combine to create assets and distribute it to the people to bring them out of the present crisis.