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Wednesday, Jul 12, 2006

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Andhra Pradesh - Hyderabad

Processions create traffic snarls

Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD: All these days, it was only during rush hours that residents of Secunderabad Cantonment or those living in and around West Marredpally had to put up with traffic slower than snails. But on Monday and Tuesday, this was one daylong pain.

As political parties tried to prove that each had bigger cadre support while coming to file nominations at the Cantonment office, it was the public who suffered. If the Rajiv Rahadari had it only in bits and pieces and at sporadic timings, it was a daylong torture for the road from Picket towards YMCA, the West Marredpally road passing via YWCA, the road towards Clock Tower from the YMCA Crossroads and the one passing via the Cantonment Office towards East Marredpally.

The reason was quite obvious. With the candidates coming with long cavalcades, the police stopped their processions near the Ganesh temple and allowed only the candidate and those who had to sign for him through to the SCB office. That the police did not bother to divert at least a little of the traffic from Picket or Secunderabad Club added to the misery. This led to a trail of slow moving traffic all the way up to Karkhana at times.

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