India, Jan. 4 -- Farmers who had offered their 33,000 acres of lands for building the capital city of Amaravati have called for an agitation for retaining it at the same place and formed a joint action committee (JAC) of political parties in Andhra Pradesh. Opposition TDP and Jana Sena have hinted at joining the JAC while efforts are on to rope in BJP too.

Farmers of around 23 villages abutting the limits of Amaravati have been on warpath for the last three weeks since Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy had announced in the assembly that the State might have three capitals and that an executive capital can be set up at port city of Visakhapatnam. The farmers are insisting that the status of Amaravati should not be diluted at any cost....