Reports suggest that a Bill declaring Amaravati as the Capital of Andhra Pradesh will be introduced in the Parliament during the Winter Session in December.
Once passed and published in the Gazette, Amaravati will receive full statutory recognition as the Capital.
If any future government wants to change the capital, it must introduce another Bill in the Parliament. The change also needs a two-thirds majority, which is extremely difficult. This Gazette will decide the long-term future of both Andhra Pradesh and Amaravati.
Between 2014 and 2019, Chandrababu Naidu did not address this legal requirement, and the state paid the price when Jagan Mohan Reddy pushed for three capitals and halted Amaravati's development. Andhra Pradesh lost five crucial years of progress during that period.
YSR Congress leaders repeatedly questioned the absence of a Gazette Notification and argued that Amaravati remained only a "temporary arrangement." They said Chandrababu should explain why his earlier government did not issue the required notification.
Chandrababu is avoiding that mistake now, and this Gazette is the outcome. With the Central Government depending on TDP numbers, passing the Bill should not be difficult. Amaravati's legal status will then be firmly secured at the national level.
A total of 30,635 farmers gave 34,911.23 acres through the Land Pooling Policy, and 29,644 of them already received returnable plots. These farmers protested for years and faced insults under the previous government, while legal cases prevented the capital shift.
Jagan Mohan Reddy did not lay a single brick in Visakhapatnam, the proposed Executive Capital, which made the reversal simple. Today, works in Amaravati are progressing quickly. If the Capital reaches a presentable stage before the elections, shifting it again may become impossible.