Carrying placards and ploughs, the demonstrators additionally demanded that the YSR Congress Get together authorities within the state follow the sooner plan of getting one capital metropolis in Amaravati as envisaged by former chief minister and Telugu Desam Get together (TDP) president N Chandrababu Naidu in 2014.

TDP leaders, together with Jayadev Galla and Ok Rammohan Naidu, Bahujan Samaj Get together’s Danish Ali and YSR Congress’ Ok Raghu Rama Krishna Raju, a dissident chief within the state’s ruling social gathering, had been among the many parliamentarians who expressed their help to the farmers protesting beneath the banner of the ‘Amaravati Parirakshana Samithi’.

A number of different leaders, together with from the Congress and the Left similar to CPI secretary D Raja and its Rajya Sabha member Santhosh Kumar, additionally joined the demonstration on the Jantar Mantar, based on an announcement from the samithi.

“Farmers need the federal government to honour its earlier dedication. Their land has been taken in lieu of creating the capital in Amaravati however now the federal government is backtracking,” Raju stated.

Amaravati Parirakshana Samithi president Shiva Reddy stated the YSR Congress after coming to energy in 2019 reversed the choice of the earlier TDP authorities to develop Amaravati as the one state capital and determined to construct two extra capitals in Visakhapatnam and Kurnool.

This had triggered large protests by farmers of Amaravati who had “given 33,000 acres of land for the capital”, he stated, including that they really feel betrayed now.
Farmers had additionally organised a maha padayatra from Amaravati to Tirupati final 12 months to mobilise public help for his or her calls for, Reddy stated.

For the final three years, farmers have been protesting in opposition to the state authorities’s resolution to determine three capitals, the organisation’s president stated.