Former judge of the Supreme Court V. Gopala Gowda has said that the State government has no right to continue even for a single day if it was against implementing the High Court order which was to develop Amaravati as the single capital city of Andhra Pradesh, and asserted that ‘the judgment (given by HC) is the law till it is set aside by the apex court’ as per Article 13 of the Constitution.
The paucity of funds cannot be an excuse for not following the High Court directions, he asserted, while expressing regret that the government has made clear its intention to go ahead with its three capitals proposal even after the court ruled that the State has no legislative competence to change the capital or bifurcate or even trifurcate it.
Addressing a meeting organised by Amaravati Parirakshana Samiti (APS) on the High Court judgment on Amaravati here on Saturday, on the occasion of completion of 900 days of the farmers’ struggle against ‘three capitals’, Mr. Gowda said it was unfortunate that the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) government did not resume the development of Amaravati even after 90 days of the judgment, and it came up with unjustifiable excuses to escape from its Constitutional responsibility to implement the decision taken by its predecessor.
