TDP, BJP appeal to Andhra Pradesh governor to reject ‘unconstitutional’ bills on 3 capitals

Hyderabad: Opposition parties Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and BJP in Andhra Pradesh have appealed to governor Biswabhushan Harichandan to reject the Bills on three capital cities that the YSR Congress government has sent to him for approval. They have termed the government’s move “unlawful” and “unconstitutional”.
The YS Jagan Mohan Reddy regime has decided to have three capital cities — administrative capital at Visakhapatnam, judicial capital at Kurnool and legislative capital at Amaravati — in place of a unified capital city proposed by the erstwhile Chandrababu Naidu government.

The Reddy government had twice obtained the approval to the Bills at the legislative assembly where it has a majority with 151 of the 175 seats. But it could not get the nod of the legislative council dominated by the TDP. TDP national president Naidu and BJP Andhra unit president Kanna Lakshmi Narayana, in separate letters, have appealed to the governor to reject the Bills since the council had referred those to a select committee.

A senior official at the Andhra Raj Bhavan said the governor has sought legal opinion. “The governor is on second thoughts on signing the Bills and ordinances of the YSR Congress government, after the Andhra Pradesh High Court setting aside the ordinance to remove state election commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar and the Supreme Court refusing to stay the high court order,” said the official, who did not want to be named.