Visakhapatnam will be my home and I will perform the swearing-in ceremony in this city, says CM Jagan

Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy outlines plans to make Visakhapatnam the Executive capital and a global city.

Exuding confidence that he would win the upcoming Assembly elections with a handsome margin, Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy said that he will make Visakhapatnam his home and will stay here and went ahead to say that he would conduct his ‘swearing-in ceremony’ in this city.

He was speaking at the investor meet christened as ‘Vision Visakha’ in Visakhapatnam at star hotel, he said that the city will become the Executive capital and has to become the economic growth engine of the State.

Coming down heavily on the Opposition parties he said, “The Opposition parties and some sections of the media are claiming that I have vested interest in Visakhapatnam. If that was the case, I would have had vested interest in Kapada, my home district, and not Visakhapatnam.”

This city has the potential to become a global city and is blessed with all the trappings to become a mega metropolis. But if the vision is ‘negative’ then growth cannot take place and I am the only one pitching to make this city a mega city by converting it as the Executive capital.

“But the Opposition is putting spokes in all my efforts,” said Mr. Jagan.

It is the Opposition party leaders who had vested interest in developing Amaravati has the greenfield capital. They have procured thousands of acres of land in Amaravati at cheaper rates, even before it could be declared as the capital, with the intention of making money out of real estate business, he said.

Amaravati is a virgin land and it would take over ₹1 lakh crores just to develop the basic infrastructure over the next 20 years. On the other hand Visakhapatnam is already a developed city, said the Chief Minister