VISAKHAPATNAM: AP assembly speaker Tammineni Sitaram has warned opposition leader and former chief minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu from playing games with the people of north coastal Andhra Pradesh by organising padayatra of Amaravati farmers in the region.
Addressing a press conference in Srikakulam on Sunday, he pointed out that after the creation of Andhra Pradesh, development had been focused on Hyderabad at the cost of other places in the undivided state. After bifurcation, AP has ended up losing Hyderabad, with nothing left for the rest of the divided state.
The speaker further said after becoming chief minister of the residual state, Chandrababu Naidu made Amaravati as capital of AP to benefit himself, his community and farmers of the 29 villages in Amarvati, while giving a raw deal to north Andhra and other regions.
Sitaram maintained that to correct this anomaly, Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy has announced three capitals in Andhra Pradesh for rendering justice to all parts of the state.
He alleged that Naidu has now engineered a padayatra from Amarvati to north Andhra region only to derive benefits for his and his community and farmers within the 29 villages of Amaravati.
“As a citizen of north Andhra, I would like to know who gave permission to Chandrababu Naidu for organising the padayatra,” the speaker asked. He wanted Naidu to explain what harm would be caused if the administrative capital of the residual state is established in Visakhapatnam.
Sitaram reiterated that Jagan Mohan Reddy has thought of three capitals not to repeat mistakes of the past.
