Botsa asks intellectuals to question Amaravati marchers
Deccan ChronicleKAKINADA: Education minister Botsa Satyanarayana on Saturday again criticised the padayatra by farmers from Amravati to Arasavilli opposing the three capitals proposed by the YSRC government. Participating in a round table meeting presided over by retired professor P. Chandrasekhar on decentralisation of development, Botsa reiterated that Telugu Desam agents in the garb of farmers are undertaking the padayatra. Speaking at the same meeting, roads and buildings minister Dadisetty Ramalingeswara Rao asked whether it would be justified if he, along with 50,000 people, undertakes a padayatra from Annavaram to Tirupati for setting up the AP capital at Kakinada. Indian Medical Association Kakinada president Dr. Kiran, hotels association president Y. Venkatesh, JNTUK student J. Rajkumar, port-based trader B. Rammurthy and several others supported the decentralisation move.