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Sparks fly over dog menace

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Pressing issue: TDP and Congress corporators engaged in a scuffle while police try to pacify them in front of Municipal Corporation office in Rajahmundry on Friday. —

Rajahmundry: Dog menace in Rajahmundry Municipal area created flutters and tension just in front of Corporation office on Friday and Telugu Desam and opposition Congress party Corporators were locked in a scuffle over the issue. The high-drama took more than five hours from the morning 8.30 a.m. and settled with a written assurance given by the Commissioner V. Rajendra Prasad to tackle the dog menace within five days.

It all started in the morning when Congress Corporators led by its floor leader Polu Vijayalakshmi started sat-in-dharna on the issue in front of the Corporation office by locking the main gate and blocking both ways of the Corporation. They did not allow any one into the office till 10.30 a.m. when the ruling TDP Corporators led by Mayor Adireddy Veeraraghavamma came to the venue. When Mayor getting down from her car, Congress Corporators started shouting slogans against her and demanded immediate action against the menace. Mayor tried to pacify the corporators and asked them to allow her inside the corporation.

However, Polu Vijayalakshmi and her deputy Ch. Raghavababu and other Congress Corporators argued with Mayor that no action was taken by neither Municipal Health Officer nor the Commissioner for last nine months on the issue. They demanded that there should be an end to this problem on the spot. Meanwhile, Adireddy Apparao, TDP City president and husband of the Mayor intervened in this matter and tried to push the gates of the Corporation along with their corporators Parimi Vasu, I. Srinivas and others. However, their move was thwarted by the Congress Corporators. TDP corporators raised slogans against the MLA and Congress Corporators retaliated by raising slogans against the Mayor. The police tried their best to pacify both the warring groups.

The Commissioner assured the Congress corporators that he will settle the issue within five days.

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