Hyderabad, a major metropolitan city in India, has ceased to serve as the joint capital of Andhra Pradesh, becoming the sole capital of Telangana. This change is in accordance with the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act of 2014. The Act stipulated that from the appointed day (June 2), Hyderabad, which was then part of Andhra Pradesh, would be the shared capital of both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh for a period not exceeding ten years. During these ten years, Andhra Pradesh was permitted to conduct its administration and assembly proceedings from Hyderabad until it established its own capital city.

According to media reports, this change took effect on Sunday, June 2nd. Starting from that date, Hyderabad will exclusively serve as the capital city of Telangana, marking the end of the ten-year period.

Last month, during an official review meeting, Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy directed officials to reclaim buildings like the Lake View government guest house in Hyderabad, which had been allocated to Andhra Pradesh for a period of ten years. Besides Lake View, the Andhra Pradesh government occupies two other buildings. The Hermitage building complex in Adarsh Nagar houses the offices of the General Administration Department (GAD), State Reorganisation, and Roads and Buildings Departments.

Although Hyderabad served as the common capital for ten years, Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu decided to construct a new capital city in Amaravati, finding it inconvenient to administer Andhra Pradesh from a neighboring state. For about a year following the bifurcation, the Andhra Pradesh administration operated from Hyderabad.

As reported by the Times of India, the ongoing court dispute between Visakhapatnam and Amaravati has left Andhra Pradesh without a permanent capital for the time being.