AP Staff Protest Forcible Shifting To Amaravathi

Andhra Pradesh government employees today called on former union minister and BJP leader Daggubati Purandeshwari and told her that they would not go to the new capital city Amaravathi, which was yet to take shape.

They also complained to her that it was not proper for the State government to coerce them to go to Amaravathi.

Chandrababu Naidu has made it compulsory for AP government empoyees to shift to Amaravathi by the end of June.

The women employees urged Purandeshwari to explain their problem to the TDP government as the leader of a friendly Party, and get the shifting stalled by at least a year as there were no minimum facilities there.

The employees met Purandeshwari at the BJP office in Nampally and narrated their woes. They also expressed their readiness to go to Amaravathi if the government constructed a permanent Secretariat instead of a temporary one.

As their children were born in Hyderabad and there was a nativity problem, they pleaded with Purandeshwari to take their problem to the Centre.

After a patient hearing, Purandeshwari assured them that she would try to solve their problems by discussing with the Centre.

APNGOs Hyderabad city unit former president Sathyanarayana, R&B engineers Gopalakrishna, Manjula and Laxmi Kousalya, AP Employees Housing Society former president Venkatram Reddy, and BJP leader Sudheesh Rambotla were present.

Meanwhile, an AP employee attempted suicide in front of the Agriculture Commissioner's Office at L B Stadium by pouring petrol on his body, stating that he would continue his job only in Telangana and would not go to Andhra Pradesh. However, the police prevented him from killing himself.