One can understand the anguish of farmers of Amaravati capital region on the reports of a possible shift of capital city to some other place.
They had given their lands for the capital and got the plots; and so, they are worried that their land values would go down drastically.
One can also understand the protests by the local TDP leaders, especially those belonging to rich Kamma leaders who had bought huge chunks of land in Amaravati and they are worried about a huge loss they would incur if the capital is shifted.
But one fails to understand why some leaders from Rayalaseema are crying over the shifting of capital from Amaravati.
Take for instance, TDP leader and former minister Paritala Sunitha. She belongs to Anantapur and her family amassed huge wealth in Penukonda region. All her business and political interests are there in Rayalaseema.
So, it was surprising to see Sunitha threatening to take up indefinite fast, if the Jagan government shifts the capital from Amaravati. She warned that she would storm secretariat with thousands of farmers.
Neither Sunitha or nor her Paritala family, who had been ruling part of Rayalaseema, had never bothered about achieving benefits to the region – whether it was setting up of AIIMS in Anantapur (which was later shifted to Mangalagiri), high court in Kurnool, provision of jobs to the unemployed from Rayalaseema in Amaravati, which was promised to be made a free zone etc.
But she is getting agitated when the Jagan government is contemplating over shifting of capital from Amaravati.
This makes one wonder whether Paritala family has any benami properties in Amaravati or Sunitha wants the interests of her community to be protected.
