<p>Faced with protests from the Amaravati farmers, disapproval of the entire opposition, and the Andhra Pradesh high court's review, the Jaganmohan Reddy government has decided to repeal the contentious three capital legislation, shifting the executive from Amaravati to Visakhapatnam.</p>.<p>The Amaravati farmers have been agitating for about two years now asking chief minister Reddy to do so.</p>.<p>However, making a statement in the Assembly on Monday after a repeal bill was introduced, CM Reddy said the back-down was only to bring in more comprehensive, infallible bills as the present decentralisation legislations are challenged legally and otherwise.</p>.<p>“I have nothing against this region Amaravati, I have built my home here. But to raise a mega, greenfield capital, expenditure on basic infra like roads, power, drainage itself requires about Rs 1 lakh crore. Where do we bring such an amount from,” Reddy questioned while revisiting the calculations he presented last year.</p>.<p><strong>Also Read | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/south/fear-of-adverse-court-judgement-forced-jagan-to-withdraw-3-capital-act-tdp-and-bjp-1053552.html" target="_blank">Fear of adverse court judgement forced Jagan to withdraw 3 capital act: TDP and BJP</a></strong></p>.<p>Alternatively, Reddy said Visakhapatnam already has the required infrastructure and “with some value addition the port city could have competed with Hyderabad in five, ten years.”</p>.<p>Reddy said that his three capitals, decentralisation plan was done with a good intention, to avoid “a super capital” like Hyderabad. The mega-city with heavy concentration of industries and institutions finally went to Telangana in the 2014 bifurcation.</p>.<p>The YSRCP dominated state Assembly later passed the bill repealing the Andhra Pradesh Decentralization and Inclusive Development of all Regions Act 2020 and the Andhra Pradesh Capital Region development Authority Repeal Act 2020 Act.</p>.<p>“We would would bring in a new decentralisation bill, strengthening the existing provisions and effectively addressing legal questions, public concerns while also widening the scope to benefit a larger section of the society,” Reddy said, while not stating a time-line for the reworked legislation.</p>.<p>For now, Amaravati, from where the state secretariat, legislature and high court are operating from, is officially back as Andhra Pradesh's sole capital.</p>.<p>Within months of coming to power in May 2019, Reddy dismantled the grand plan of his predecessor Chandrababu Naidu to raise a “world class, greenfield mega capital” at Amaravati, near Vijayawada, in Guntur district.</p>.<p>In July 2020, the YSRCP government notified the two acts – one stripping Amaravati of its sole capital status and other to establish the executive capital at Visakhapatnam, judiciary in Kurnool with Amaravati remaining only as the legislative capital.</p>.<p>The acts were soon challenged in the courts by Amaravati farmers who parted with lands for the capital construction. Reddy's capital shift has been on hold since last year following orders from the Andhra Pradesh High Court. On Monday, the government submitted its decision to revoke the legislation.</p>.<p><strong>Watch the latest DH Videos here:</strong></p>
<p>Faced with protests from the Amaravati farmers, disapproval of the entire opposition, and the Andhra Pradesh high court's review, the Jaganmohan Reddy government has decided to repeal the contentious three capital legislation, shifting the executive from Amaravati to Visakhapatnam.</p>.<p>The Amaravati farmers have been agitating for about two years now asking chief minister Reddy to do so.</p>.<p>However, making a statement in the Assembly on Monday after a repeal bill was introduced, CM Reddy said the back-down was only to bring in more comprehensive, infallible bills as the present decentralisation legislations are challenged legally and otherwise.</p>.<p>“I have nothing against this region Amaravati, I have built my home here. But to raise a mega, greenfield capital, expenditure on basic infra like roads, power, drainage itself requires about Rs 1 lakh crore. Where do we bring such an amount from,” Reddy questioned while revisiting the calculations he presented last year.</p>.<p><strong>Also Read | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/south/fear-of-adverse-court-judgement-forced-jagan-to-withdraw-3-capital-act-tdp-and-bjp-1053552.html" target="_blank">Fear of adverse court judgement forced Jagan to withdraw 3 capital act: TDP and BJP</a></strong></p>.<p>Alternatively, Reddy said Visakhapatnam already has the required infrastructure and “with some value addition the port city could have competed with Hyderabad in five, ten years.”</p>.<p>Reddy said that his three capitals, decentralisation plan was done with a good intention, to avoid “a super capital” like Hyderabad. The mega-city with heavy concentration of industries and institutions finally went to Telangana in the 2014 bifurcation.</p>.<p>The YSRCP dominated state Assembly later passed the bill repealing the Andhra Pradesh Decentralization and Inclusive Development of all Regions Act 2020 and the Andhra Pradesh Capital Region development Authority Repeal Act 2020 Act.</p>.<p>“We would would bring in a new decentralisation bill, strengthening the existing provisions and effectively addressing legal questions, public concerns while also widening the scope to benefit a larger section of the society,” Reddy said, while not stating a time-line for the reworked legislation.</p>.<p>For now, Amaravati, from where the state secretariat, legislature and high court are operating from, is officially back as Andhra Pradesh's sole capital.</p>.<p>Within months of coming to power in May 2019, Reddy dismantled the grand plan of his predecessor Chandrababu Naidu to raise a “world class, greenfield mega capital” at Amaravati, near Vijayawada, in Guntur district.</p>.<p>In July 2020, the YSRCP government notified the two acts – one stripping Amaravati of its sole capital status and other to establish the executive capital at Visakhapatnam, judiciary in Kurnool with Amaravati remaining only as the legislative capital.</p>.<p>The acts were soon challenged in the courts by Amaravati farmers who parted with lands for the capital construction. Reddy's capital shift has been on hold since last year following orders from the Andhra Pradesh High Court. On Monday, the government submitted its decision to revoke the legislation.</p>.<p><strong>Watch the latest DH Videos here:</strong></p>