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Protest over college wall demolition

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Parties threaten stir

Kakinada: The action of the city planning authorities in demolishing the age-old PR College compound wall under the pretext of road widening, without the knowledge of the college authorities and taking up construction of a wall encroaching 20 sq yards along the road sparked off loud protests on Friday from old students and political leaders alike.

The widening of the road on only one side, affecting the college grounds, leaving buildings on the other side, belonging to affluent sections, untouched compounded their feelings.

An all-party delegation consisting of Dadala Subbarao, CPI(M) district secretary, Jyothula Srikrishna Achyutharamaiah, city BJP president, Nandamuri Vinod, city BJP vice-president, Fruity Kumar, TDP whip in the Corporation, and Nookala Radha and A.V. Naidu, senior Congress leaders gheraoed Corporation Commissioner K. Subrahmanyam at his chamber. Assurance given

The issue, however, subsided with the Commissioner assuring them of stopping the construction of controversial wall and taking up road widening on the other side also.

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