Nara Lokesh reiterates Andhra Pradesh pitch after Bengaluru start-up founder shares land woes on X

A frustrated station connected X by a Bengaluru-based start-up laminitis has erstwhile again opened the doorway for Andhra Pradesh to tribunal start-ups from the city.

Kshitij Khandelwal, laminitis of Pixxel — 1 of the astir salient space-tech start-ups based successful Bengaluru — wrote connected X that trying to unafraid onshore for mounting up a outer mill connected the city’s outskirts has been acold much hard than making the satellites themselves.

M.B. Patil, Minister for Large and Medium Scale Industries, soon responded to the post, saying his bureau would beryllium successful touch.

Invited to AP

Nara Lokesh, Andhra Pradesh IT Minister, however, didn’t miss the accidental to marque a pitch.

Reposting Mr. Khandelwal’s post, helium invited the start-up’s attraction to Anantapur successful Andhra Pradesh, which helium termed “a caller investor-friendly destination connected the outskirts of Bengaluru.”

“We’re gathering abstraction cities, aerospace parks and ready-to-go concern ecosystems truthful founders tin walk their clip gathering satellites alternatively of hunting for land,” helium added, asking the Andhra Pradesh Economic Development Board to get successful interaction with the start-up team.

‘Excited to explore’

Responding to the post, Mr. Khandelwal noted that the committee had reached retired and that the squad is excited to research Anantapur Space City.

Mr. Lokesh has often utilized Bengaluru’s infrastructure shortcomings arsenic an accidental to transportation Andhra Pradesh arsenic an alternate destination for start-ups.

In September 2025, erstwhile BlackBuck CEO Rajesh Yabaji announced plans to determination the bureau retired of Outer Ring Road (ORR), citing potholes, particulate and commute challenges, Mr. Lokesh suggested relocating the institution to Vizag.

Following media reports that much companies on ORR are considering moving to northbound Bengaluru, helium seized the accidental to beforehand Anantapur — located further northbound — arsenic a amended alternative.

This led to a warfare of words betwixt him and past Karnataka IT-BT Minister Priyank Kharge, who termed the determination “desperate scavenging”.

In July 2025, too, erstwhile the Karnataka authorities dropped plans for onshore acquisition adjacent the Bengaluru airdrome pursuing workplace protests, the Andhra Pradesh IT Minister made a akin pitch, inviting the aerospace manufacture to his State and offering “8,000 acres of ready-to-use onshore (just extracurricular Bengaluru)!”