Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party (YSRCP) coordinator for North Andhra districts and Rajya Sabha candidate for the upcoming polls for the Upper House Y. V. Subba Reddy stirred a hornet’s nest by stating that Hyderabad should be the joint capital for both the Telugu speaking States – Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, till Visakhapatnam becomes the Executive capital.
Speaking to the media, after receiving the B-Forms from Chief Minister Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy at Amaravati on February 13, he said, “As per the Andhra Pradesh Bifurcation Act- 2014, it was decided that Hyderabad would be the joint capital for 10 years for both the States, till A.P. has its own capital. But the earlier government had failed to provide a permanent capital and it ran the show from a temporary capital at Amaravati. When we came to power in 2019, keeping the financial limitations of the State in mind, we decided to make Visakhapatnam, the most developed city in the State, as the Executive capital, but legal hassles were created for us.
“While fighting the legal hassles on one hand, we are now thinking of making Hyderabad our capital city, till Visakhapatnam becomes the Executive capital. We will discuss this matter with our leaders after the upcoming General and Assembly elections and submit a proposal to that extent to the authorities concerned.”
