Amaravati: The Andhra Pradesh High Court has directed to maintain the status quo (status quo) on the decentralization of capital and Capital Region Development Authority (CRDA) repeal bills.
The court has today heard the petition filed against the decentralization of the state capital by different parties. On this occasion, the public prosecutor asked the bench to give 10 days deadline to file the counterclaim, while agreeing on it the court has granted the 10 days deadline and ordered the continuation of the status quo for 10 days. The court has posted the next hearing to August 14.
It is learned that State Governor Vishwa Bhushan Hari Chandan has already given his approval to the three capitals and CRDA repeal bills. The YS Jagan Mohan Reddy led state government has published in the Gazette the Andhra Pradesh Administrative Decentralization and Integrated Development of All Areas Act (Act No. 28 of 2020), which was brought in to establish the three capitals.
According to the law, Amravati will no longer be the legislative capital of the state, Visakhapatnam the executive capital, and Kurnool the legal capital. Also, the Capital Region Development Authority (CRDA) will be transformed into Amravati Metropolitan Region Development Area (AMRDA). The government has published another new law (Act No. 27 of 2020) in the Andhra Pradesh Gazette in this regard.
The main opposition of the Andhra Pradesh has opposed the three capitals and CRDA repealing initiative of the State Government and it has stopped the passing of these bills in the state legislative council where it has the majority. The party has also supported the agitation of the ryots of the Amaravati area against the shifting of the Capital. The peasants have given their land to the then Chandra Babu Naidu led state government to build the state of art infrastructure and capital however the incumbent govt has initiated the process for the three capitals of the state.
