Amaravati Approved: Why Did It Take 12 Years?

Generally, when a state is confirmed to have a capital city, the entire development index is surrounding this particular region. This is the case with several neighbouring South Indian states like Karnataka, which has Bengaluru, Tamil Nadu, which has Chennai, and Kerala, which has Thiruvananthapuram.

But in the case of Andhra Pradesh, the situation is very peculiar as the status is now having to struggle to even lock a capital. In fact, it took 12 years for Andhra Pradesh to have officially locked its capital and this involved a political process, including the legislation in the parliament which is a rare sight. 

This is primarily due to the fact that the NDA government in Andhra Pradesh is facing hurdles in developing the capital region. This obviously originated when Jagan was wanted to power in 2019 and he wandered away from Amaravati with the proposal to build 3 capitals which didn’t work out well anyway. 

So this warranted the return of the NDA government, which had to take several legal and judicial measures to lock in Amaravati as the rightful capital.

A few political experts are commenting that the NDA government faced a situation, unlike any other government as they had to approach the Parliament just to lock their capital in fear of the other political party in the state.

In other states, regardless of the political situation and the subsequent verbal warfare, all the parties are in approval of a unanimous capital. But only in Andhra Pradesh, do we see the opposition YSR Congress fighting a losing cause by floating new capital cities regularly just to ward off Amaravati. 

A few people are even commenting that never in the history of Indian politics did a political party hate a region so much to the degree that the ruling government had to legislate the permanent capital region just to safeguard it. The situation of AP people is unlike any other in the country right now, at least as far as their fight to secure their own capital goes.