Amaravati, barely 20 kms from Vijayawada, was envisaged as the new capital of Andhra Pradesh by the N Chandrababu Naidu-led Telugu Desam Party (TDP) government that ruled the state between 2014 and 2019. Five years down the line, Amaravati seems to have turned into a “ghost town”, becoming home to unfinished buildings, abandoned projects, dumped machinery and dashed hopes of hundreds of local residents, especially farmers. “We gave up our fertile lands, borrowed money and bought a house here as... Read this story
