The stage is set for conducting the first Assembly session of Andhra Pradesh after the bifurcation of the State from March 6 in the new capital, as Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu inaugurated the new Assembly building at Velagapudi in the capital (Amaravati) region in Guntur district on Thursday.

Describing it as a historic occasion, the Chief Minister asserted once again that he would spare no efforts to make Amaravati the best State capital in the country. “We came here from Hyderabad with virtually nothing and a huge deficit. We have managed to build the temporary secretariat and the new Assembly building and the council building against all odds. The rest of the capital and the other projects will be pursued with the same vigour. I shall make the State number 1 in the country,” he said.

AP Assembly Speaker K Sivaprasada Rao, said it would be a matter of great pride for the Andhras that the Assembly would function on their own soil and the laws would be made from their state and not from Hyderabad, which is the joint capital for ten years. “This is a major milestone in the construction of the new capital and the history of the new Andhra Pradesh, one which needs to be remembered and cherished by all Andhras,” he said.

State Finance Minister Y Ramakrishnudu said the farmers in the capital region who gave up 33,000 acres of land for the capital needed to be congratulated.

However, the opposition YSR Congress leaders did not attend the Assembly inauguration function, alleging that they were not invited to it. They alleged that the State government had made it a purely Telugu Desam party function. The opposition was totally ignored, they alleged.

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