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Minister for IT Nara Lokesh connected Friday described the Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA) task successful Puttaparthi arsenic a transformative inaugural that would crook Rayalaseema into a large defence and aerospace hub, susceptible of generating monolithic employment and creating concern maturation avenues.
Speaking astatine the instauration stone-laying ceremonial of the AMCA task here, Mr. Lokesh concisely addressed the gathering successful Hindi, drafting cheers from the audience.
Recalling the imaginativeness of Sri Sathya Sai Baba, helium said galore radical had questioned the request for an airdrome successful Puttaparthi erstwhile the erstwhile had projected it, but the portion was present emerging arsenic a large defence and aerospace hub. Mr. Lokesh said the NDA authorities drew inspiration from Sri Sathya Sai Baba’s imaginativeness successful bringing precocious defence projects to Puttaparthi.
Referring to Operation Sindoor, helium said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had demonstrated the spot of India’s equipped forces to the country’s enemies. “Every Indian is arrogant of the enactment astatine the Centre,” Mr. Lokesh said, calling Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh the country’s “Iron Man.”
He said the AMCA task was brought to Puttaparthi arsenic a “return gift” to the radical of the undivided Anantapur territory for supporting the NDA some astatine the Centre and successful the State.
“The NDA authorities is palmy successful bringing strategical defence investments to a drought-prone portion that has agelong struggled with migration and deficiency of opportunities,” the Minister said.
Crediting Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu for bringing the Kia task to the region, Mr. Lokesh said that the “same imaginativeness has present attracted fifth-generation combatant craft integration and precocious flight-testing facilities to Puttaparthi.”
“In fact, treatment connected the AMCA task had taken spot during my gathering with Mr. Rajnath Singh successful New Delhi successful December 2025. The State authorities moved swiftly to unafraid approvals successful a grounds time,” helium said.
Dig astatine YSRCP
Targeting the earlier YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) regime, Mr. Lokesh said, “Their inheritance is factionism, ours is combatant jets. Their inheritance is criminality, ours is Kia.”
