When some farmers are opposing the proposed inclusion of their villages in the Amaravati capital region, other are liberally extending cooperation to the massive project of construction of world class capital by Andhra government. Farmers of Tullur village in Amaravati capital region today donated Rs 3, 52,675 to capital development committee. A group of farmers today met chief minister Chandrababu Naidu at his camp office in Vijayawada to handover the cheque. They said this was the money they got as rents for their properties. They also announced a donation of Rs 60 lakh to the capital development in near future. They said as they were going to get more money due to the increase in rents in region, they had decided to donate the whole amount they would get to the capital construction.
This is the farmers’ response to the call given by chief minister Naidu for donations for the construction of the capital. Naidu exhorted people to donate at the rate of a brick or equivalent worth money per family to the development of capital . According to Naidu, this is a symbolic participation of the people in the what the calls a “people’s capital of Andhra Pradesh”.
Farmers who met the CM were Kadiyala Vamsikrishna, Vellanki Srinivas Satyaprasad, Kondreddy Venkata Satyanarayana, Suryaprbhakar. Chief minister, while appreciating the gesture of farmers from capital region, said despite the roadblocks created by critics of Amaravati, the development of the capital was going ahead. ” October 22, when the foundation stone will be laid for the new capital by PM Modi, will go down in the history as water mark for the Telugu people,” he said, calling upon people to come forward with donations in order to participate in the capital construction.