It is kind of official now. YSR Congress occasion president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy is make Visakhapatnam his seat of administration, come what could, no matter the end result of the judgement in Supreme Court docket.
In an interview to an English day by day final week, the chief minister made it clear that he had taken a choice to make Visakhapatnam as the chief capital after an in depth thought and dialogue and there’s no query of going again on it.
He informed the day by day {that a} chief minister can rule from any a part of the state and that’s going to be the seat of administration.
“Wherever the chief minister operates, his cupboard ministers will even operate from there. Wherever the ministers are there, the state secretariat will probably be there,” he mentioned.
Stating that he had chosen Visakhapatnam as the chief capital for administrative comfort and monetary viability, Jagan mentioned no one (together with courts) can resolve from the place the chief minister shall operate.
Stating that Visakhapatnam is an emblem of decentralised administration, the chief minister mentioned by spending mere Rs 5,000 crore to Rs 10,000 crore, Visakhapanam can emerge as a world-class capital metropolis.
Based on sources, Jagan is agency on transferring to Visakhapatnam at any value, no matter the choice within the Supreme Court docket, which goes to take up a particular go away petition of the state authorities difficult the excessive courtroom order on Amaravati.
If the Supreme Court docket provides its judgement in favour of the federal government, Visakhapatnam will develop into the capital metropolis with out a lot lack of time.
Even when the judgement goes in opposition to the federal government, Jagan has determined to maneuver to Visakhapatnam, with out declaring it as govt capital.
“In that case, Amaravati would be the capital metropolis on paper, however de facto capital metropolis will probably be Visakhapatnam, as there isn’t a authorized bar on the chief minister to function from Visakhapatnam. If Jagan operates from the port metropolis, all of the ministers and officers need to go there and so would be the state secretariat,” a celebration supply mentioned.
The meeting will proceed to be in Amaravati and since no one will object if the excessive courtroom is shifted to Kurnool, it can’t additionally materialise with out referring to it because the judicial capital.
So, Jagan desires to decentralise the administration with out having to make a separate regulation for 3 capitals.
“The federal government has full readability on the identical. The train will begin quickly on this regard,” sources mentioned.
