854 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
There is no mention of it at all. Who is to create this capital ? Is it the Legislature of the new Andhra State which is to meet and decide what is to be its capital ? Is it the Executive Government of the new State which is to sit at some place and decide that the capital of the new Andhra State will be this ? There is no indication at all in the Bill, as to which is the authority which is to create this capital. Reading from the newspapers it does appear that there is no unanimity among the Andhras on the question of the capital. There is a section which wants Vijaywada, there is a section which wants Kurnool and those in favour of Kurnool I think, won by one vote or so. In a situation of this kind, I think the Government would not have fallen—I am sure about it, they have an enormous majority to beat down any opposition—if they had taken courage in both hands and said that, “in our judgement this should be the capital,” leaving liberty to the Andhras at a later stage to change it if they so liked. Sir, in connection with this question of the capital, there is one point which I would like to mention. I do not know what is the town that is going to be selected as the capital of the Andhra State, but, any how, everybody seems to be taking that whatever town is selected for the purpose of a capital, it shall be a temporary capital. That is what I hear. Now, Sir, it strikes me—whether they select a town which is Vijaywada or Kurnool or some other place—that they may be spending a certain amount of money for the construction of the necessary buildings for the housing of the capital. Surely, there must be the Secretariat: surely, there must be the houses for the Ministers ..........
Shri C. G. K. Reddy (Mysore) : That is very important.
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar: .......... and various other things in order that the capital may come into existence. I have no idea of the amount of money the new Andhra Government proposes to spend on the creation of this temporary capital. After what is being said that this will only be a temporary capital and that the permanent capital will be selected at a later stage, what would happen ? In my judgement, what would happen is this : the five crores of rupees or so that might be spent initially on the construction of a temporary capital would all be a waste and another five or ten crores of rupees will have