AMARAVATI: The Amaravati farmers were granted permission by the Andhra Pradesh High Court on Friday to conduct a second Maha Padyatra, which would leave from this location on September 12 and call for the development of Amaravati as the state capital.

After the police refused to let the long march to demand that the High Court's decisions for the development of the state capital be implemented, the court gave the all-clear hours later. The organisers have received the go-ahead from the court, albeit with some restrictions.

The police were directed by Justice C. Manavendranath Roy to take into account the farmers' appeal and give them permission for the Maha Padyatra from Amaravati to Arasavalli in the Srikakulam district.

The court laid down the restriction that only 600 individuals might take part in the march. It also urged the organisers to get advance approval before holding the public meeting at the conclusion of the long march.

The Amaravati Parirakshana Samithi had approached the High Court, seeking direction from the police to give permission for Maha Padyatra. The state government notified the court that the Director General of Police will be issuing orders on the application of APS by the end of Thursday, thus the court decided to postpone the hearing until Friday.

Late on Thursday night, Director General of Police Rajendranath Reddy issued an order denying permission for the game on the grounds that there may have been a breach of peace. On Thursday night at midnight, the DGP gave the order to APS General Secretary Gadde Tirupati Rao.
The DGP noted that APS had conducted a padyatra from Amaravati to Tirumala the previous year. He said that despite the court having granted the padyatra conditional authorization, the conditions were violated. The APS leader was also informed that the regions that make up the projected Maha Padyatra's path had various goals. On the march's path is Visakhapatnam, which has been designated as the administrative capital.

The Padyatra with the slogan "Build Amaravati Save Andhra Pradesh" is proposed to conclude at Arasavalli in Srikakulam district on November 11 after passing through sixteen  districts. It is aimed at rising pressure on the government to complete the constructions and infrastructure creation in Amaravati as ordered by the High Court on March 3 this year.

The farmers undertook 45 days via Padyatra from Amaravati to Tirupati the previous year. Various limitations had been put in place by the police throughout the march from the High Court to Devasthanam (Tirumala temple). The APS made the decision to remove Maha Padyatra, claiming that the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) government is not doing anything to carry out the court rulings.

Even after the High Court decided that the state lacks the legislative authority to partition, bifurcate, or trifurcate the state capital, the state government, according to APS, has not changed its stance. Amaravati should be established as the capital city, the court had declared, and it had set specified deadlines for this.

On March 3, a three-judge panel issued its ruling on 75 petitions submitted by Amaravati farmers and others opposing the government's plan to divide the state capital into three parts.

The YSRCP, which took office in 2019, overturned the TDP government's decision to make Amaravati the sole state capital. It chose to build Amaravati, Visakhapatnam, and Kurnool as the three state capitals. This help incited massive agitation from farmers of Amaravati, who had given 33,000 acres of land for the capital and were hoping to reap its economic advantages.