Naidu is now engaged in bringing up Amravati, the spanking new capital city of Andhra Pradesh, which will be of global standards, _________ the relatively better planned capital cities of Chandigarh and Gandhinagar. Under Naidu, Andhra Pradesh could also be India’s first user of the hyperloop, the __________ mode of travel being developed by the headline __________ US billionaire and inventor Elon Musk.

• A. surveying past gripped
• B. surpassing, futuristic, grabbing
• C. dawdle, advanced, clutching
• D. beating, plain, grasped
• E. capping, modern, seized