Andhra Pradesh TDP president Palla Srinivasa Rao advocates for the Rushikonda buildings to be used for tourism, citing the land's ownership by the Tourism Department and the potential for revenue generation through leasing as a hotel or resort. He argues that converting the nearly 1,000 crore project into a government office complex would be fiscally imprudent due to high maintenance costs and low income, contrasting it with the steady revenue a tourism-oriented approach could provide.