Strange are the ways of Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu. All these days, he has been saying that he would make the new capital of Amaravati into another Singapore.
For every design and construction, he has been consulting Singapore government and what is worse, he is all set to hand over major part of the Amaravati land to Singapore for development.
And not just Singapore, Naidu has been taking the name of every place that comes to his mind – whether it is Istanbul, Beijing, Shanghai, London, Tokyo, Putrajaya etc, saying he would adopt development models from these places to construct Amaravati, forgetting the local flavour and culture.
More recently, he came under sharp criticism from various sections for approving the Japanese designs for the assembly and high court buildings which looked like atomic reactors.
Now, Naidu is planning to visit Russia and Kirghizstan shortly along with his paraphernalia in a special aircraft. Apparently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who had visited these countries recently, is learnt to have told Naidu that they have great buildings with wonderful architecture.
So, Naidu has decided to go these places and emulate the architecture in these places while developing Amaravati.
If Naidu apes the buildings of all these countries, one will see a mixture of various architectures in Amaravati; and not the native Telugu culture!
