[BREAKING] Andhra Pradesh government moves Supreme Court against High Court order to build Amaravati as capital

The Andhra Pradesh government has moved the Supreme Court challenging the March 3 judgment of the state high court declaring Amaravati as the only capital of the state in a bid to revive its plan to have three capitals..Three core issues have been highlighted in the appeal filed (just now) through Advocate Mahfooz Nazki of the State government. These are:.1. The issue had become infructuous since the impugned legislations had been repealed. .The AP Decentralisation and Inclusive Development of All Regions Repeal Bill, 2021, was introduced in the assembly by Finance Minister Bugganna Rajendranath Reddy to scrap the AP Decentralisation and Inclusive Development of All Regions Act, 2020, and AP Capital Region Development Authority Repeal Act, 2020, for the development of three capitals — Amaravati (legislative), Visakhapatnam (executive) and Kurnool (judicial)..2. Under the Federal Structure of the Constitution, every State has an inherent right to determine where it should carry out its capital functions from.3. To hold that State does not have the power to decide on its capital is violative of basic structure of the Constitution.4. The judgement is violative of the doctrine of separation of powers since it pre-empts the legislature from taking up the issue..A division bench headed by Chief Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra had held that the state legislature had no competence to make any legislation on the state’s capital and directed the state government not to shift any office from the present capital city of Amaravati.The court also asked the state government to pay ₹50,000 to the petitioners..[BREAKING] Andhra Pradesh High Court directs State to complete construction of Amaravati in 6 months.The court also directed the state government to inform it on a regular basis over the implementation of its order on developing the capital city Amaravati..The proposed formation of three capitals by the state government was challenged by the farmers of Amaravati, the present capital region..The farmers claimed that the government had entered into agreements with them for offering their land under the Land Pooling Scheme (LPS), promising to develop a new capital.The YS Jagan Mohan Reddy-led government decided to make three capitals in different cities in order to ensure development in all parts of the state. It proposed administrative capital in Visakhapatnam, judicial capital in Kurnool and the legislative capital in Amaravati but it failed to materialise due to filing of numerous petitions in the High Court.