Farmers Movement Archive

Leaders of JAC, TDP continue stir for Amaravati as capital

Members of the the Amaravati Parirakshana Samiti Joint Action Committee (APS-JAC) in the district staged a demonstration in front of the Prakasam Bhavan here on Monday demanding retention of Amaravati as the one and only capital of Andhra Pradesh. The JAC members came in a big procession to the Church Centre raising slogans against the Jagan Mohan Reddy Government and demanding that they drop its three capital move. All India Kisan Sabha national vice-president Ravula Venkaiah said it was unfortunate that the YSR Congress Party Government did not take into consideration the sacrifice made by farmers. TDP Ongole Lok Sabha constituency unit president N.Balaji questioned the need for three capitals for a small Sate which was now struggling to overcome bifurcation blues including huge un-bridged revenue deficit. Andhra Pradesh Rationalists Association president N.Venkata Subbaiah felt that a government that was indifferent to farmers who have been agitating for the last 300 days had no moral right to be in power. Protests in Tirupati The student and youth wing activists of the TDP painted a grim picture of the State without Amaravati as the capital. In a mock protest conducted on Monday, members of the Telugu Nadu Students Federation (TNSF) dressed up as construction workers and staged a demonstration in front of a building under construction. Their protest was to throw light on the possible rampant unemployment in future that could reduce engineers and technocrats to daily wagers. Accusing the State government of putting spokes in development by creating confusion on the capital issue, the protesting members said the government should withdraw the decentralisation move. The students recalled that Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy had, as the Opposition leader, acknowledged on the floor of the house the need for developing 30,000 acres in Amaravati as the capital, and questioned how he could go back on his word now. ‘No investors’ “No investor has come up with fresh proposals in the State. This bears testimony to the doubts persistent in their minds,” Mr. Ravi Naidu said. “The TDP regime had announced Tirupati as an electronics hub and Vizag as the IT hub. But the IT companies have now started moving to Hyderabad, Chennai or Bengaluru,” Mr. Anand Goud said, attributing it to the ‘rowdyism’ spreading tentacles in the State.

The Hindu

2020-10-13

ONGOLE,ANDHRA PRADESH