India, May 22 -- HyderabadYSR Congress Party president and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy on Thursday asserted that Amaravati would remain an unrealistic model for a capital city despite receiving statutory status from the Centre.

"Andhra Pradesh will continue to remain a state without a capital even after - not just one or two decades, but even three decades - if Amaravati is projected as the capital city," Jagan said at a press conference at his camp office in Tadepalli in Guntur district.

He claimed that, even by the government's own estimates, developing Amaravati across more than one lakh acres with roads, drainage, water supply and electricity infrastructure would require nearly Rs.2 lakh crore.

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