Hyderabad, June 4 -- The Andhra Pradesh government's ambitious Amaravati capital city development plan is facing resistance from farmers in Undavalli and Penumaka villages, who are refusing to part with their lands for the capital city under both the land pooling and land acquisition schemes.

On Tuesday, farmers from the two villages, along with their counterparts from neighbouring Nidamarru, Errupalem and Kuragallu villages, met YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) president Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy at his camp office in Tadepalli, seeking his support in their fight against what they described as forcible land acquisition by the Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Development Authority (APCRDA).

At the same time, the aggrieved farmers boycotted a gram sa...