The city of Amaravati formally became the capital of Andhra Pradesh on Monday after President Droupadi Murmu gave her assent to the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Amendment Act.
The bill was passed by the Lok Sabha on April 1 and by the Rajya Sabha on April 2.
The development marked the fulfilment of a “long-cherished dream”, said Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday.
“This is a victory for my people of Andhra Pradesh, especially my farmers of Amaravati,” Naidu said in a social media post in which he expressed gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, all MPs who supported the bill and citizens.
The new law amends Section 5 of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act to replace the words “and there shall be a new capital” with “and Amaravati shall be the new capital”. It also clarifies that Amaravati includes areas notified under the Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Development Authority Act.
The project to make Amaravati the state capital had begun in 2014, when Telangana was carved out of undivided Andhra Pradesh and Hyderabad was made the joint capital of the two states for ten years. The Andhra Pradesh Cabinet, in September 1, 2014, approved Amaravati as the site for the new capital, and Naidu...
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