Kapu reservation movement leader and former minister Mudragada Padmanabham has appealed to Opposition parties in the State to come under one umbrella to drive away Singapore companies which are going to invest in Amaravati in the name of developing the capital region. The campaign should be on the lines of the one undertaken agianst the British during the freedom struggle, he said.
He wrote an open letter to Opposition leaders N. Raghuveera Reddy (Congress), Kanna Lakshminarayana (BJP), P. Madhu(CPI(M)), K. Ramakrishna (CPI), Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy (YSR Congress Party), Pawan Kalyan (Jana Sena Party), and Vadde Sobhanadreeswara Rao.
He alleged that Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu has pledged valuable lands to Singapore companies as his own properties and entered into pacts. He described the on the day which the two governments signed MoUs a “black day” in the history of the new Andhra Pradesh.