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Vijayawada
By Our Staff Reporter
VIJAYAWADA, NOV.27. The Congress party, which is at the helm of affairs in Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC), effectively used its strength in the general body and also in the Standing Committee and convened a special session to swear-in the party's newly-elected corporator, Marupilla Mohan Tilak, here on Saturday. It was the shortest general body meeting in recent times. In contrast to the regular protracted sessions, this special meeting of the general body including the swearing-in ceremony was finished in less than an hour.
CPM's charge
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) floor leader, Ch. Babu Rao, at the very outset, charged the Mayor, Panchumarthy Anuradha, for using its `clout' to convene a special meeting because she reportedly rejected a request for a regular general body meeting. Mr.Babu Rao said it was demeaning for the VMC general body to requisition a special meeting to make a resolution on the issue of door numbers, when it approved a resolution on it in the previous general body meeting. It was unfortunate that the Congress should get a party corporator elected unanimously to the municipal corporation general body and sworn in through the "backdoor", he said. He urged the Mayor to allow discussion on other equally important issues like laying of road on the Satyanarayanapuram railway line, the deadline set by officials for paying drainage connection deposits and the pushkaram grant which was converted into a loan.
Session defended
The Deputy Mayor, Musunuri Subba Rao, defending the special meeting, said with the municipal elections fast approaching, the issue of door numbers had assumed tremendous significance. Citizens living in houses without door numbers would be denied their voting right. One of the prerequisites for issuing of voters' identity cards is door number. Mr. Rao charged Mr. Babu Rao with politicising the issue. Referring to the objections raised by the CPI spokesman, P.Gowtham Reddy, BJP spokesman, M.V.Prasad, on the reorganisation of the electoral divisions, the City Planner, G.V.Raghu, said that there was no link between door numbers and the reorganisation of divisions. Doors were numbered on the basis of 70 localities identified in the city, he said.
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