Sreenivas Janyala

The previous TDP state government had procured 33,000 acres of land under a unique Land Pooling Scheme (LPS) to construct the proposed capital city.

Reforms include changing the medium of instruction, revamping infrastructure, and updating curriculum.

Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy said 1,513 farmers committed suicide during the previous regime and vowed to give compensation to families of all the remaining 1,122 farmers that the TDP did not compensate.

A single parent, Najmunissa was put in jail on sedition charges after her daughter — a Class V student - spoke against the CAA in a school play.

The department started a search and seizure operation on February 5 as part of its probe across Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Kadapa, Visakhapatnam, Delhi and Pune.

As part of the initiative, the government has identified land in all 13 districts of the state.

Local body elections are likely to be held next month in the state.

The government said developing the two municipal areas would lead to increase in the value of land, which fell following the government’s decision on three capitals.

The purchases were done through 106 cash transactions of various amounts ranging from Rs 2-20 lakh. All the assigned lands sold off are in Mangalagiri mandal in Guntur district.

The headmistress of Shaheen Urdu Primary School, Fareeda Begum Baig, who was arrested along with Najmunissa, suffers from hypertension.

This is the second court judgment where a death sentence has been awarded to rapists in the state.

The timing of these transactions is significant for investigators because the previous TDP government had announced that it would develop a capital in Amaravati — between Guntur and Krishna districts — only in October 2014.

The play was staged on January 21. After it was livestreamed on social media, ‘social worker’ Neelesh Rakshaal registered a complaint on January 26, and the arrests followed on January 30.

The district administration has also erected check posts on all roads leading to Medaram, where plastic is collected from pilgrims and they are given cloth or jute bags instead.

Earlier, pensioners had to go to the village panchayat or nearest distribution centre and wait in queues to collect pension.

The incident took place on November 24 last year when the victim was waylaid by the three convicts while she was walking on a lonely stretch.

Ironically, it was abolished the last time by N T Rama Rao, the founder of the TDP, after the Congress blocked all the government’s decisions in the Council. And it was restored by Dr Y S Rajashekara Reddy, the father of Chief Minister Jaganmohan Reddy.

More than 20,000 farmers and landowners had given up land for the proposed capital under former CM N Chandrababu Naidu’s land pooling scheme in 2014-15.

The TDP which has 21 MLAs has decided to boycott the Assembly to indicate that the resolution to abolish the Legislative Council was taken in the absence of opposition.