The entire YSR Congress working body is filled with hatred towards the capital region of Amaravati and their series of actions clearly reflect the same. This isn’t an individualistic opinion but a general consensus from AP public.
But it appears that even former YSR Congress leaders who claim they have nothing to do with the party also have bad faith in the capital and continue to spit venom whenever they can.
This is to be understood in the case of Vijaya Sai Reddy, who claimed that he’s retiring from politics and distanced himself from Jagan’s camp. Today he came up with a social media post against Amaravati and there’s an overwhelming amount of disregard to the capital.
As posted by Vijaya Sai, Bengaluru was founded in 1537 by Kempe Gowda, Hyderabad in 1591 by Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah, and Chennai in 1639 by the British East India Company under Francis Day. It took 500, 430, and 380 years respectively for them to become the metropolitan cities they are today.
Amaravati cannot be manufactured overnight with borrowed money and grand illusions, especially when it is not self-financing as claimed.
Build the basics first, Assembly, Secretariat, High Court, and essential housing for government employees and stop there. Let Amaravati grow organically with people, business, and time. A capital city must rise from strength, not debt.
Indiscriminate spending on fancy designs and oversized infrastructure is not vision; it is financial recklessness. Every unwarranted rupee spent today becomes a burden on the people of Andhra Pradesh tomorrow.
Loans for non-revenue-generating projects do not build prosperity, they strain public finances, he said on this matter.
There is this clear attempt to label Amaravati as a non-revenue generating project without basic designing. He even went on term this as a big button on the people of Andhra Pradesh tomorrow.
The real intention behind this post is obviously murky as people are puzzled whether Vijay Sai wants AP to remain as a capital less state as he appears to be holding everything against Amaravati.
With an experienced chief minister like Chandrababu, who had significant contribution to global city Hyderabad, a steady progress graph for Amaravati is not too far from materialisation. Alas, building a capital is going to take time and money, and once it’s up and running, the revenue will follow, commented a financial analyst.
