YSR Congress Party warned the Telugu Desam Party government in Andhra Pradesh not to lay foundation for dissent among people of other regions by concentrating development in a single place (capital city Amaravati).
“The proposed nine gems (sectors of development) of the TDP government will lead to dissent among other regions (of Andhra Pradesh) as concentration will be only at one place (Amaravati), as was done in case of Hyderabad and there is no rationale in repeating the same mistake,” Party general secretary Dharmana Prasada Rao said, according to a release.
“No capital city in the world has such an extent of land. TDP speaks of paperless administration, where is the need for 33,500 acres of land already acquired and the thousands of acres in the pipe line for acquisition,” Mr Rao questioned.
Capital building is not a short-term process and all stakeholders should be involved but the TDP government has never called for an all-party meeting or discussed the issue in the Assembly nor did it take the opinion of stakeholders, he alleged.
