Visakhapatnam will be Andhra Pradesh's capital, and Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy will shift there "in the months to come", he announced today, apparently sticking to the three-capital plan — other two being Kurnool and the existing capital Amaravati — despite the High Court having ruled last year that it can't make a law for that.
#WATCH | "Here I am to invite you to Visakhapatnam which will be our capital in the days to come. I will also be shifting to Visakhapatnam in the months to come": Andhra Pradesh CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy at International Diplomatic Alliance meet in Delhi pic.twitter.com/wANqgXC1yP
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The case is pending in the Supreme Court on an appeal by Mr Reddy's YSRCP government. Mr Reddy, who made the assertion about Visakhapatnam while marketing an investment summit to be held there, has consistently favoured the coastal city as the Executive Capital. He has said in the past too that he would work from there.But N Chandrababu Naidu, while denying any such wrongdoing, had questioned why land originally acquired from farmers to build a new capital was being sold off by the YSRCP government.
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Some months ago, the Leader of Opposition specifically found fault with the AP Capital Region Development Authority's decision to lease out the residential towers, built for government employees, to private entities.
Favoured as a capital by Chief Minister Jagan Reddy, the coastal city of Visakhapatnam — its name sometimes shortened to Vizag — is the largest and most populous city in Andhra Pradesh. After Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu, it is the second largest city on the east coast of India.
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