Has chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy successfully trapped Chandrababu Naidu in his three-capital rhetoric? It appears so. Now, the YSRCP has upped the ante and is targeting the TDP on the three-capitals issue. By the time the pro-Amaravati yatra reaches the North Andhra region, the pro-Vizag movement is all set to heat up the things.
Already senior minister Dharmana Prasada Rao has said that he was ready to resign and plunge into the agitation in support of Vizag as the executive capital of the state. Former minister Avanthi Srinivas too has said the same thing. Going a step further, government whip Karanam DharmaSri has submitted his resignation in the speaker’s format.
He even dared YSRCP AP chief K Atchen Naidu to resign too and go to the people to seek fresh mandate. He said he would defeat Atchen fair and square. With all this political heat, the issue of three capitals is all set to occupy the centre-stage of political discourse. To add further spice, there are attempts to form a non-political Joint Action Committee to achieve three-capitals for AP.
All these have ensured that the TDP goes on the backfoot. It would make supporting Chandrababu’s pro-Amaravati yatra difficult. Whether the TDP will accept the YSRCP challenge and resign or whether the TDP openly backs Amaravati as the capital, remains to be seen. Both ways, the TDP will stand to lose heavily.
