Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly passes bill to establish three capitals

The Andhra
Pradesh Legislative Assembly late on Monday night passed the AP
Decentralisation and Inclusive Development of All Regions Bill, 2020 that
intended to give shape to state government’s plan of having three capitals, executive
capital in Visakhapatnam, legislative in Amaravati and judicial in Kurnool.

The
amendments to the Bill proposed by the Opposition Telugu Desam Party were
rejected by the House.

The Bill
will be moved in the Legislative Council on Tuesday but the government may face
an rsising task to see it through as the ruling YSR Congress has just nine
members in the 58-member Upper House.

Towards the
fag end of the day’s proceedings, 17 MLAs of the TDP were suspended from the
House for a day as they disrupted the chief minister’s address. Winding up a
nearly 12-hour debate on the Bill, Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy said by
distributing the capital functions and focusing on decentralisation, his
government was “undoing the wrongs and historic blunders” committed
by the previous regimes since the formation of erstwhile Andhra state in 1953.