Visakhapatnam will be Andhra Pradesh‘s new capital, Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy announced today.
“Here I am to invite you to Visakhapatnam, which will be our capital in the days to come. “I will also be shifting to Visakhapatnam in the months to come,” said Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy at the International Diplomatic Alliance meeting in Delhi.
The announcement of a new capital for Andhra Pradesh comes nine years after the state of Telangana was carved out of its territory and given Hyderabad as its capital.
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