Jagan said that his government is still committed to building three capitals in the state and is exploring legal options.
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy said on Thursday in the assembly that the judiciary was “crossing its domain and trespassing into the state government’s legislative terrain of making laws.”
He stated in his first public response to the high court’s March 3 order rejecting his plan to create three state capitals.
Jagan said that his government is still committed to building three capitals in the state and is exploring legal options.
After assuming office in 2019, the Jagan government planned to build Amaravati, Visakhapatnam, and Kurnool as the state’s legislative, executive, and judicial capitals, respectively. However, the HC decision has thrown a major legal stumbling block in the way of its objectives.
Jagan said the legislative, judiciary, and executive, as the “three pillars” of the Constitution, must all operate properly within their jurisdictions and not interfere with or “dominate” other domains.
Jagan said Courts should not give judgments in anticipation of better legislation.
He said that only the legislature has the authority to enact laws and that neither the executive nor the judiciary does.
Jagan recalled that YSRCP got 86 per cent of the seats because the people opposed the previous government’s policies. Courts should not interfere in every decision of the legislative system and should not impose impractical deadlines, said Jagan.
He also said that it was necessary to consider the point made by the Shivavaramakrishnan Committee that justice would be done to all areas only through decentralization. The same is mentioned in the Three Capitals Bill.
Earlier this month, the Andhra Pradesh High Court directed the Jagan government to establish Amaravati and the surrounding capital region as Andhra Pradesh’s only capital city within six months.
