Union Minister of State for Railways Kotla Jaya Surya Prakash Reddy on Tuesday met the GoM looking into the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh and pushed for Kurnool, a week after Union Minister for Tribal Welfare V Kishore Chandra Deo urged the GoM to make Visakapatanam the new capital of the truncated state. Further he requested the GoM to merge two districts in Rayalaseema -Ananthapur and Kurnool- with Telangana, as per the aspirations of the locals.

Kurnool should be the capital of Seemandhra as the former functioned as the capital of Andhra Pradesh for three years, after it (Andhra Pradesh) was carved out from erstwhile Madras Presidency,” Reddy, representing Kurnool LokSabha constituency, told a news agency.