GUNTUR: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Tuesday opened an exhibition of photographs taken by the `Gunturu Ghantaravam' padayatra team on the problems faced by the people of Guntur district.

The three-day exhibition was inaugurated by former Indian Medical Association leader Chigurupati Nageswara Rao and Congress MP Sigam Basavapunnaiah and has been thrown open to the public every day from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Rythu Sangham leader P. Narasimha Rao presided over the meeting.

Petitions galore

The padayatra will come to a close on March 2 at 6 a.m. with party State secretary B.V. Raghavalu addressing a public meeting at the Wolf Hall Ground in the city. The five-member padayatra team led by district secretary D. Rama Devi will enter the city on Thursday afternoon.

Meanwhile, the padayatra team received some 29,000 petitions from people during their 38 days of interaction with people. There were at least 30 villages where people stayed in crammed houses. At many places three families stayed in a single house and demanded allocation of house site.

There were 131 Dalit colonies in the district, which did not have power at all though there were polls and wires. The previous regime had promised the Scheduled Castes and Tribes free power, but did not issue a G.O. Primary Health Centres at many places did not have sufficient staff and the Vinukonda hospital with 30 beds had only one nurse.

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