TDP’s majority in AP upper House hurdle to three-capital plan
Live MintThe Andhra Pradesh assembly passed the Capital Region Development Authority Repeal Bill 2020 and the AP Decentralisation and Inclusive Development of all Regions Bill 2020, the first steps the current YSR Congress Party government took in decentralizing the state’s capital between Amaravatri, Visakhapatnam and Kurnool. Both the bills were passed late in the night on Monday, Earlier in the day on Monday, the state government approved the ‘High Power Committee’ report during a cabinet meeting chaired by chief minister Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy in Amaravati. Last year in December, the state-government appointed an Expert committee which recommended that Visakhapatnam be made the executive capital, Kurnool in the Rayalaseema region the legal capital with the high court located there, and suggested that Amaravati could house the governor’s office and the state assembly, becoming the legislative capital. Rao-led expert committee, after the state cabinet, led by the chief minister Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy deferred taking a decision to relocate the capital.