Amaravati Updates | Capital of Andhra Pradesh, IND

Gurumoorthy garu, you ask for a balanced account. Here it is. YSRCP turned Amaravati into ghost city and left Andhra without a capital. Under CBN garu's leadership, it is being turned into a world-class, sustainable smart city. Here is what development under a visionary leader looks like 1. An identity, restored by law. On 1 April 2026, the Lok Sabha passed the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2026, which wrote "Amaravati shall be the new capital" into law. On that historic day, when Andhra got its identity back, YSRCP walked out of the Parliament. They could not even sit through Andhra getting its capital back. 2. Investments turning into outcomes.Works worth over Rs 50,000 crore are moving: Secretariat, Assembly, High Court, and housing for legislators and officers. Rs 3,859 crore has been cleared for roads, drainage and amenities in the farmers' own returnable layouts. The World Bank and ADB have committed Rs 13,600 crore, and the World Bank has already released $340 million for Phase-I. 3. Investors have come back. While YSRCP was trying to split the capital three ways, nobody would invest in it. Today, 1,284 acres have been allotted to 101 institutions, bringing Rs 28,075 crore of investment and 36,000+ jobs, with names like LIC, HPCL, HUDCO, New India Assurance and BITS Pilani. India's first Quantum Valley Tech Park is rising here with IBM and TCS. 4. Real decentralisation. Google's $15 billion AI hub is coming up in Visakhapatnam, ArcelorMittal's Rs 1.35 lakh crore steel plant at Anakapalli, and Orvakal and Kopparthy are industrial nodes. That is development reaching every region, through investment and jobs, without chopping a capital into three. What YSRCP gave Amaravati: YSRCP backed Amaravati before the 2019 election, then announced three capitals to the very farmers who had given their land. When they protested, farmers including women were lathi-charged until the National Commission for Women stepped in. The farmers sat on the roads for 1,631 days for their capital. Even after the High Court ordered in March 2022 that the capital be developed within six months, YSRCP chose a Supreme Court stay over building it. I opposed the three-capitals idea from the start. I went to Amaravati, sat with the farmers and heard their plight first-hand. I stood for Amaravati as the sole capital, to protect the farmers who gave their land and to drive the state's development. What the people of Andhra have said: In 2024, they rejected YSRCP and cut it down to 11 seats out of 175. This month, they said it again. In the municipal elections, the NDA alliance won 79 of 87 municipalities and swept the corporations. In the rural polls, it won 499 of 582 ZPTCs and 5,861 of 7,768 MPTCs. Shekhar Gupta ji is a senior journalist who has kept his integrity across decades and governments. Questioning him for the sake of politics, when the people of Andhra have shown twice what they prefer, goes against their will. Those who spent five years demolishing, litigating and lathi-charging need not mark the homework of those who are building. Amaravati is the answer: the sole capital of Andhra Pradesh is being built.