This story is from February 27, 2020

Wedding pandal is latest venue for Amaravati protests

The locals’ bond with capital city Amaravati is such that they are not hesitating to raise their voice for one capital city even during weddings.
Wedding pandal is latest venue for Amaravati protests
venue shift: A newly-wed couple holds placards against the shifting of capital from Amaravati, in Guntur district on Wednesday
AMARAVATI: The locals’ bond with capital city Amaravati is such that they are not hesitating to raise their voice for one capital city even during weddings.
The people of the capital city area, who have been relentlessly participating in agitations for Amaravati, took protests to the next level on Wednesday when a newly-wed couple and their family members sported placards in favour of Amaravati.
The bridegroom Jammula Sudheer, native of Guntur, is working as an accounts executive at a private firm. He tied knot with girl from Thullur village on Wednesday. An activist of Telugu Desam Party (TDP), Sudheer decided to make his wedding a memorable by making family members and friends raise their voice for Amaravati.
J Malleswara Rao, Sudheer’s father, said that it was not proper for the state government to undermine the sacrifice of the capital city farmers. He said that people from all districts were extending support to the cause of Amaravati as it was the peoples’ capital city. The friends and family members of the wedding couple have also shouted slogans demanding that the state government retain Amaravati as single capital city of the state.
Meanwhile, former minister Somireddy Chandramohan Reddy, who participated in the farmers dharna in Mandadam village, said that Amaravati would surely tighten the noose around the YSRC government. He said that BJP leaders were insulting the Prime Minister Narendra Modi by backing Jagan on the issue of three capital cities as Modi had laid the foundation stone for Amaravati. He said that they would bring the capital city back to Amaravati even if Jagan shifted it. He said that the firms which entered into agreements with CRDA, state government and Centre would drag the present government to court and retain the capital city in Amaravati. “YSRC leaders compared Amaravati with burial ground. How could they distribute house sites to the poor in Amaravati? Do they want the poor to live in the burial ground?” Somireddy asked.
Former minister Nakka Anand Babu warned the police not to take the law into their hands as they would surely land in trouble in future. He said that police were deliberately implicating the commoners in the false cases just for opposing the government’s decisions.
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