Amaravati capital of corruption, alleges Jagan; justifies 3-capital plan
YSRCP president YS Jagan Mohan Reddy explaining a point at a press conference at Tadepalli on Wednesday
Tadepalli: Former Chief Minister and YSRCP president YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Wednesday termed Amaravati as the capital of corruption accusing Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu of engineering unprecedented and impractical policies to enrich him and his coterie and putting the future of the State at stake.
He told the media here that from where Naidu will get the Rs2 lakh crore to build the capital city proposed by him and how long it would take for completion.
When Naidu boasted that the capital city is a self-financed model, why were loans taken, allocations made in the budget, which all pointedly speak of the rampant corruption and the layers of scams involved from land acquisition to tendering process and the exorbitant rates being given to the favoured contractors, he asked.
"In view of the exorbitant cost and with a view to not burdening the people and continuing the welfare and development process, we have opted for three capitals and chosen Visakhapatnam as the executive capital, as it already has the infrastructure and with little investment, it would serve the purpose. For regional balance, we kept Amaravati as the Legislative Capital and Kurnool as the Law Capital," Jagan said.
Stating that they are not against Amaravati or any other region;he clarified "we are only opposing the rampant corruption in the name of greenfield capital city. We are highlighting how other regions are being neglected and how welfare and development is coming to a grinding halt with the single-mindedness and high focus on only Amaravati.
We have also given a Plan B to develop the Machilipatnam-Vijayawada-Guntur corridor as the capital region, but it was also not considered."
Jagan came down heavily on Naidu and the TDP national president has been going ahead with his corrupt practices and speaking of a capital which is tall in talk, exorbitant in cost and pushes the State into a debt trap. "We are concerned about the finances of our State and will expose all the scams," he cautioned. The resolution for the capital city in the Assembly was only to divert the attention of the people, as the Centre has nothing to do with the capital of any State. When Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, and Uttarakhand were formed, the Centre did not mention the capital cities.
In view of the exorbitant cost and with a view to not burdening the people and continuing the welfare and development process, we have opted for three capitals and chosen Visakhapatnam as the executive capital, as it already has the infrastructure and with little investment, it would serve the purpose.
