Amaravati, A day before taking oath as Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, TDP supremo N Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday announced that Amaravati will be the sole capital of the state.
Naidu made the announcement while addressing a joint meeting of TDP, BJP and Janasena MLAs, where he was unanimously elected as the NDA leader in the Andhra Pradesh Assembly.
“There will be no game under the guise of three capitals in our government. Our capital is Amravati. Amaravati is the capital,” Naidu said.
As the first chief minister of divided Andhra Pradesh between 2014 and 2019, he had floated the idea of making Amaravati the capital.
However, this brainchild of Naidu suffered a setback in 2019 when TDP lost power and Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy-led YSRCP won in a landslide.
Reddy scrapped the Amaravati capital city plan and propounded a new principle of three capitals, which Naidu has now replaced with the decision of a single capital.
The NDA alliance of TDP, BJP and Janasena won a landslide victory in the recently concluded simultaneous Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in the state with a landslide victory in 164 Assembly and 21 Lok Sabha seats.
This victory has breathed new life into the Amaravati capital city project.
Naidu made the announcement while addressing a joint meeting of TDP, BJP and Janasena MLAs, where he was unanimously elected as the NDA leader in the Andhra Pradesh Assembly.
“There will be no game under the guise of three capitals in our government. Our capital is Amravati. Amaravati is the capital,” Naidu said.
As the first chief minister of divided Andhra Pradesh between 2014 and 2019, he had floated the idea of making Amaravati the capital.
However, this brainchild of Naidu suffered a setback in 2019 when TDP lost power and Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy-led YSRCP won in a landslide.
Reddy scrapped the Amaravati capital city plan and propounded a new principle of three capitals, which Naidu has now replaced with the decision of a single capital.
The NDA alliance of TDP, BJP and Janasena won a landslide victory in the recently concluded simultaneous Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in the state with a landslide victory in 164 Assembly and 21 Lok Sabha seats.
This victory has breathed new life into the Amaravati capital city project.
