The proposal to shift the administrative wing of the government from Amavarati to Visakhapatnam and the High Court to Kurnool met with opposition from farmers who “sacrificed” their fertile and productive land for building the Capital. The Chief Minister too used it to stressed on the point of shifting the administrative wing to Visakhapatnam. It may be recalled that the Telugu Desam Government had appointed a high-power committee headed by the then Minister P Narayana to finalise the development of the Capital. The constitution of the high-power committee is therefore the prerogative of the government in power and no force can find fault with that, the pundits say. Whatever the high-power committee decides, the large number of Ministers, many from Rayalaseema and coastal Andhra, would be required to go to people to justify the decision, they say.

Source: The Hindu December 30, 2019 04:41 UTC