The State government’s proposal to have ‘three capitals’ might have run into a stumbling block in the form of an adverse judgment by the Andhra Pradesh High Court (HC), but the chapter appears to be far from closed.
This is because some Ministers have openly stated that decentralising the administration is a prerogative of the government and its powers cannot be curtailed by courts.
Taking it a bit farther, a former minister wrote a letter to Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy stressing on the need for a special session of the Legislature to discuss the ‘doctrine of separation of powers’ thereby suggesting that the High Court exceeded its brief.
