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TDP leader repeats charges against Minister, ZP chief

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VIZIANAGARAM: District TDP president Y. Ramana Murty has reiterated that Zilla Parishad Chairperson B. Appala Naidu and Minister for Housing B. Satyanarayana have been collecting 40 and 60 per cent respectively for filling of jobs under the deceased quota and they have also been collecting 15 per cent commission on the value of works allotted to Congress workers on nomination basis.

At a press conference on Wednesday, Mr. Ramana Murty demanded tabling of minutes of the standing committee meetings at the general body meeting for verification of the works allotted to Congress contractors.

Criticising the Chairperson for ‘lowering’ the prestige of Zilla Parishad in public, he said that senior Congress MLA and DCC president P. Sambasiva Raju did not allow a discussion on the Rs.2-crore fisheries scam at the ZP general body meeting only to protect the tainted Chairperson who is also the in-charge of Bhogapuram Assembly constituency where the civil works were executed.

On the charge that he was politicising every issue in the general body meeting, he said that as an opposition party leader it was his responsibility to raise issues involving public funds.

Mr. Ramana Murty alleged that Congress was ‘deceiving’ DSC candidates by not informing them the number of posts vacant in the district.

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