After the bifurcation, we needed a capital city of our own and we selected Amaravati as the capital city after studying all aspects. Q: Visakhapatnam also has all the qualities of being a capital city. The issue here is that Amaravati has already been chosen as the capital city and it has been functioning for the last four years. Q: What kind of role you are going to play in preventing the shifting of the capital city? I will see that the capital shift does not happen.

Source: Hindustan Times December 31, 2019 01:50 UTC