BJP opposes panel set up to identify capital for Seemandhra

Demands the panel be scrapped immediately

Questioning the Centre's move of setting up a committee to identify new capital for Seemandhra, Andhra Pradesh BJP today demanded the panel be scrapped immediately.

An expert committee under K C Sivaramakrishnan, former secretary of Union Urban Development Ministry, has been set up to study various alternatives regarding the capital for the successor state of Andhra Pradesh.

"How can the Union government constitute a committee while the state is under the election process?" BJP Andhra Pradesh unit chief spokesperson Sudhir Rambhotla asked.

"People of the new state have the right to decide about their capital and not retired bureaucrats from other states. The elected representatives also have to decide about it by discussing it in the legislative Assembly," he told reporters.

All the stake-holders should be taken into consideration on issues like availability of land, water and accessibility for all places of the state, he added.