Watch: Three capitals for Andhra!

If YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy’s statement in the state assembly becomes a reality, Andhra Pradesh will have three capital cities in three different regions to have a regional balance and a decentralised administration.

The three capital cities will be: Visakhapatnam, representing north coastal Andhra, Amaravati in Central Andhra and Kurnool in Rayalaseema.

Making a sensational statement in the assembly in the closing hours of the winter session, Jagan hinted that there could be three capital cities for Andhra Pradesh on the lines of South Africa, which also has three capital cities – Bloemfontein, Pretoria and Cape Town.

“We, too, can have three capitals – an executive capital, a legislative capital and a judicial capital. The expert committee will give its report in another one week and a decision will be taken after that,” the chief minister said in the assembly.

The executive capital will come up at Visakhapatnam, legislative capital at Amaravati and judicial capital at Kurnool, he suggested.

It would mean the Secretariat and all the government offices will move to Visakhapatnam, while the assembly and council would be run from Amaravati and the high court and all the other subordinate courts will go to Kurnool.

Let us wait and see, how the government will go about with this structure.