What was once projected as a world class capital city by the previous Telugu Desam Party government and a colourful dream of then chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu, Amaravati capital region is now going into end up as a municipal corporation.
The Andhra Pradesh government has proposed to create Amaravati into a municipal corporation and name it as Amaravati Capital City Municipal Corporation.
A letter to this effect was written by the government to the state election commission stating that elections for the villages in Amaravati be postponed in view of the formation of the corporation.
The government has proposed to include four more villages to the existing 29 villages of Amaravati to make it a bigger corporation.
Accordingly, there would be no elections to Narsaraopet, Tadepalli, Bapatla, Ponnuru, and Mangalagiri which are going be merged into Amaravati Capital City Municipal Corporation.
The cancellation of local body elections in Amaravati capital region was criticised by the opposition Telugu Desam Party stating that the ruling YSR Congress party had realised that the outcome would be completely negative because of the strong protests going on in these villages against shifting of the capital to Visakhapatnam.
However, the state government is of the hope that if Amaravati is converted into a capital region and then, residential plots are allotted to over 54,000 poor people and houses are constructed in a year or two, the situation would turn favourable to the ruling party. By that time, the agitation for the capital city can also be neutralised.
In any case, the dream capital of Amaravati is going to turn into any other municipal corporation soon!
