VIJAYAWADA: On a day when the Lok Sabha approved Amaravati as the capital city of Andhra Pradesh, YSRCP President and former Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy suggested Mavigun (the area comprising Machilipatnam, Vijayawada and Guntur) as the capital of the State.
He termed Amaravati as the capital of corruption, alleging Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu engineered unprecedented and impractical policies to enrich him and his coterie, putting the future of the State at stake.
Speaking to the media at the YSRCP headquarters in Tadepalli on Wednesday, Jagan called the bluff of Chandrababu and questioned where he would get the Rs 2 lakh crore money and how long it would take to complete Amaravati.
“The resolution for the capital city in the Lok Sabha is 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,” Jagan said.
“We are not against Amaravati or any other region; we are only opposing the rampant corruption in the name of capital, how other regions are being neglected, how welfare and development are 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 said.
Chandrababu has been going ahead with his corrupt practices, alleged Jagan.