KADAPA: Leaders of the CPI, the CPI(M) and the TDP have said that they will obstruct beautification and widening of Buggavanka stream course in Kadapa town from February 11.

Alleging apathy to two-month-long stir for rehabilitation of 650 families to be displaced by the beautification works, they asserted on Thursday that Collector G. Ashok Kumar and Municipal Commissioner S. Aleem Basha had assured them that they would not order demolition of houses along the stream course until alternative housing arrangements were made, the panel leaders told a press conference here. However, notices were served for vacating houses within a fortnight without making alternative arrangements.

Kadapa Mayor P. Ravindranath Reddy had assured an all-party committee to provide housing in Kadapa town to displaced families of Buggavanka widening works, but backtracked stating that Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy wanted displaced to be shifted to satellite city, they alleged.

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CPI district Secretary G. Obulesu maintained that poorer sections such as autorickshaw and beedi workers applied for housing in satellite city at Thollagangannapalle, but not Buggavanka displaced families. TDP State Minority Cell Chairman V.S. Ameer Babu demanded uniform widening of Buggavanka canal and resented varying widths at different places. CPI(M) divisional Secretary K. Anjaneyulu alleged that Buggavanka canal width was lesser at places having properties of the Mayor and Congress leaders, but more wide where houses of poor persons were located.

CPI councillor M.V.R. Prasad Reddy said that the Mayor has no right to interfere in beautification works, if they were being implemented by Irrigation Department.

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