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. Andhra Pradesh new capital Visakhapatnam: CM Jagan Reddy.
Visakhapatnam will be Andhra Pradesh’s new capital, chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy said Tuesday afternoon, indicating plans to develop Amaravati – on the banks of the Krishna river – as the capital city have been scrapped. The announcement of a new capital for Andhra comes nine years after the state of Telangana was carved out of its territory and given Hyderabad as its capital.
At an event in Delhi the YSR Congress chief said: “… I invite you to Visakhapatnam, which is going to be our capital in the days to come. I myself will also be shifting to Visakhapatnam in the months to come.” “We’re organising a global summit… an investors summit on March 3-4 (in Visakhapatnam) (and I want) to take this opportunity to personally invite all of you to the summit… and request all of you to not only come but also put in a good word, a strong word, to colleagues abroad,” the chief minister said.
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At the International Diplomatic Alliance meet in Delhi he urged investors to ‘visit us and see… how easy it is do to business in the state of Andhra Pradesh’.
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