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Parties spare a thought for road users

Staff Reporter

CPI(M) cadres regulate traffic along with the police at Musheerabad

HYDERABAD: For scores of motorists travelling on the main Musheerabad- Narayanguda route, it was a great relief from traffic gridlock on Saturday thanks to the thought spared by the candidates from CPI(M) and BJP for the road users when they filed their nomination papers at Abids for the byelections.

Activists of CPI(M) regulated traffic along with the police at Musheerabad crossroads where the party candidate S. Veeraiah for Musheerabad Assembly constituency took out a massive rally to file his papers.

Leaders of TDP, which is extending support to his candidature, also participated in the rally. The procession concluded at Narayanguda.

Traffic was not disrupted even at the busy RTC crossroads and Narayanguda. Policemen ensured that activists walked on one side of the road paving way for motorists to move freely even though cultural troupes danced to the tunes of drumbeats all along the procession route.

“We took necessary steps to avoid any inconvenience to road users,” ACP Chikkadpally K. P. Laxmi Naik said.

Anticipating that traffic movement would be affected, the BJP leaders limited the exercise only to a public meeting at Sri Venkateswara Swamy temple in Chikkadpally. Party nominee K. Laxman for Musheerabad Assembly constituency performed puja at the temple, addressed activists along with party State president Bandaru Dattatreya and legislator G. Kishan Reddy and later went to file nomination papers. Saturday’s nominations were a huge relief to road users who faced several hardships for the last three days when candidates from Congress and TDP came to file nominations at Secunderabad and Khairatabad with cavalcades bringing traffic to a grinding halt.

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