Great Chance For Amaravati Farmers To Show Their Anger

There is no stopping State Election Commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar. Once the panchayat polls get completed on February 21, the election commission is planning to hold the municipal polls too. Nimmagadda faced a lot of trouble from the YCP government and made rounds to the court to hold the panchahyat elections.

However, this morning, the election commission released the schedule for the municipalities too. The municipolls would be held on March 10 and repolling on March 13.

Last March, Nimmagadda postponed municipal elections in view of the increasing cases of Covid-19. In the panchayat polls, the YCP continued its winning streak but in the municipal polls, the ruling party is likely to get defeated in Amaravati municipality, feel political observers.

They say that farmers in the capital region would teach Jagan a lesson by defeating him in the local body elections to be held in their area. With all the villages in the capital region being merged with the nearby municipalities, farmers, in all likelihood, are likely to consider it a big opportunity to display their opposition against the YCP.

Farmers in the capital region have been staging demonstrations, rallies and have been on the warpath for more than a year till now demanding that the three capital proposal be withdrawn and Amaravati be retained as the lone capital of Andhra Pradesh.

The farmers are annoyed with Jagan as he neither visited their protest camps nor interacted with them to know about their problems during this period. Instead, Jagan is using pressure tactics and is using police force to thwart our agitation, they lamented.

With no other option left, the farmers, who had parted with their lands for the construction of the capital, moved the court seeking justice after Jagan mooted shifting of the executive capital to Vizag and establishing the judiciary capital in Kurnool. The case is still pending in the High Court.

After registering a landslide victory in the 2019 general elections, YCP leaders began claiming that the people have lost faith in graphic images being shown to them in the name of world-class capital by TDP supremo and Opposition leader N. Chandrababu Naidu and defeated his son N. Lokesh Babu from Mangalagiri constituency, even when it was located close to the capital city of Amaravati.

It is being said that the farmers could think use the same logic and express their anguish over the YCP government by voting against the party candidates in the upcoming municipal polls.