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TDP Polit Bureau member flays Congress

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Partymen asked to expose ‘wrong policies’ of State

VIZIANAGARAM: Execution of works in the name of development should not put people to inconvenience, said P. Ashok Gajapathi Raju, TDP Polit Bureau member here on Saturday. He called upon party men to expose the wrong policies of the Government.

Speaking at the party town committee meeting that was organised to discuss arrangements for the party’s formation day celebrations on March 29, Mr. Ashok recalled how two persons were killed and five others injured when road widening work from the Fort to Ambati Satram was executed without planning. Now, people on the road to Gumchi were facing similar problem, as the municipality had finalised tenders even after four months. He said the TDP had executed 5.3 km Ring Road but not a single casualty was reported or caused inconvenience to people.

He said that the water schemes on Champavathi riverbed would affect with the completion of Tarakarama Theertha Sagar project across the river and the proposed Jindal aluminium would pollute river Gosthani, another drinking water source, in the near future. That apart, the illegal sand quarrying from Champavathi riverbed that goes unchecked was also a cause for alarm. With regard to untouchability, he said that the TDP had made efforts to implement the Justice Punnaiah Commission’s recommendations and to some extent the two-tumbler system in villages was avoided. But the present Government was not ready to even hold gram sabhas to discuss such sensitive issue, he observed. The party town committee president I.V.P. Raju said that a mega blood donation camp would be conducted on the party formation day at the party office and appealed to cadres to participate in it.

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