YSRCP trying to regain lost ground by making positive comments on Amaravati: TDP MLA

Accusing the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) of adopting double standards on Amaravati, TDP MLA Tenali Shravan Kumar has said that the people would believe it (YSRCP) only if Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy holds public meetings in Amaravati, Visakhapatnam and Kurnool, openly pledging his support to Amaravati as the single capital city of the State.

He said that the YSRCP was trying to ‘regain some of the lost ground by making positive comments on Amaravati’.  

Addressing the media at the TDP central office near Mangalagiri on Saturday, Mr. Shravan Kumar pointed out that even as the YSRCP, during its tenure, had proposed to develop Amaravati as the Legislative Capital of the State, it had intended to shift the capital to Visakhapatnam on the pretext of decentralisation.

“Had it been done, Amaravati would have faded into oblivion and the huge sums spent on it by the TDP government between 2014 and 2019 would have wasted,” he said.

The Tadikonda MLA said that YSRCP leader Sajjala Ramakrishna Reddy purportedly spoke in favour of Amaravati as he realised the futility of keeping up his party’s ‘malicious campaign’ over the issue.

Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy had initially endorsed the idea of developing Amaravati as a greenfield capital city but took a U-turn for political reasons, he said.  

“If the YSRCP is really convinced that Amaravati is the right choice to be made the capital city, Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy should make it clear and not let his party leaders, whose statements lacked credibility, do the talking,” said Mr. Mr. Shravan Kumar.

He said that the YSRCP was trying to ‘regain some of the lost ground by making positive comments on Amaravati’. 

“The YSRCP’s allegations that insider trading of land had happened in Amaravati and that the capital city is prone to floods have been proved wrong. The YSRCP is left with no option except for striking a conciliatory posture about the development of the capital,” Mr. Shravan Kumar added.