NELLORE: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has demanded an emergency municipal council meeting to discuss chikungunya and other mosquito-borne ailments in Municipal Corporation of Nellore (MCN).

With the spread of chikungunya and other mosquito-borne cases causing concern in many parts of Nellore, there is an urgent need to convene a municipal council meeting to chalk out plans to tackle the situation, CPI (M) senior leader and Deputy Mayor Madala Venkateswarlu told reporters on Tuesday.

Charging the corporation with having totally failed to tackle the situation, the CPI (M) leader alleged that officials were not taking up the issue seriously.

Threatens agitation

Taking a dig at the functioning of MCN, Mr. Venkateswarlu warned that the CPI (M) would take up agitation programmes with like-minded parties as well as NGOs.

Meanwhile, at a separate press conference, Mayor P. Sailaja Reddy claimed that there was no need to panic and harbour apprehensions. "We have chalked out plans to tackle the situation, but we need public participation," she said.

To begin with, the corporation has already started mosquito-controlling measures and would step up anti-larval operations like house-to-house spraying of insecticides at breeding places.

"As many as 10 medical camps for six days are being conducted across the corporation to tackle the mosquito-borne diseases," the Mayor said.

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