New Delhi, Oct 19 (TOI): Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi regarding granting of special status to Andhra Pradesh.
"I request you to grant special category status to Andhra Pradesh and announce a time-frame for fulfillment of commitments made in the Andhra Pradesh Reorganization Act, 2013," Rahul has said in his letter to the Prime Minister.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Andhra Pradesh on October 22 to lay the foundation stone of the new capital.
Elaborating about the features of the new capital, Andhra Pradesh CM N Chandrababu Naidu had earlier said that Amaravati would be a blue and green city, where green energy would be promoted in a big way.
The Andhra Pradesh government is aiming to make the event grand.
The state government had already announced that the celebrations for the new capital would begin on October 13 and continue till October 22.