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CPI(M) Greater Visakha City Committee secretary and 78th ward corporator B. Ganga Rao has hailed the sending of the resolution, adopted by the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) Council against the move to privatise the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant(VSP), to the State government.
In a statement issued on Tuesday, he said that the GVMC Council at its first meeting on April 9 had passed a unanimous resolution on the issue. He said that the State government should forward the resolution to the Centre.
He also appealed to the State government to adopt a resolution in the Assembly on the issue and send it to the Centre. He thanked the Mayor, GVMC Commissioner and the corporators for supporting the resolution .
Left parties condemn raids on civil rights leaders
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CPI(M) Greater Visakha City Committee and the party’s district committee on Thursday condemned the raids conducted by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on the residences of civil rights leaders in Visakhapatnam and elsewhere in Andhra Pradesh.
In separate statements issued on Thursday, city committee secretary B. Ganga Rao and district secretary K. Lokanadham noted that the raids conducted on the residences of civil rights leaders and advocates K. Padma and K.S. Chalam were “illegal”, and demanded an immediate halt to the raids. They alleged that false cases were being foisted against those questioning the policies of the Centre ever since the BJP came to power.
Employees, trade union members stall traffic on NH at Kurmannapalem
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s statement in Parliament on Monday that the Centre would divest its stake in Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP) has sparked protests by employees at Kurmannapalem on Monday.
The Finance Minister was replying to questions posed by Visakhapatnam MP M.V.V. Satyanarayana and Araku MP Goddeti Madhavi in the Lok Sabha.
The employees and trade union representatives, who have been organising protests against the decision of the Union government for the past several weeks, stopped traffic on the National Highway at Kurmannapalem on Monday evening after they came to know about the Finance Minister’s statement. The protest is still continuing when the last reports received and the police diverting traffic.
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The CPI and the CPI(M) have opposed the reported secret agreement between the management of the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP) and National Building Construction Corporation (NBCC) on February 26 for the sale of 22 acres of land belonging to the VSP at Seethammadhara in the city.
CPI(M) Greater Visakha City Committee secretary B. Ganga Rao and CPI Cicy secretary M. Pydiraju, in separate statements on Friday, alleged that the VSP management had made the agreement under pressure from the Union government. They sought that the State government should oppose the move and alleged that the Centre was planning to hand over the lands to some corporate group.
‘State govt. imposing additional burden in times of crisis’
CPI(M) Greater Visakha City Committee has condemned the attitude of the GVMC authorities in threatening citizens to stop water supply, if they do not take underground drainage (UGD) connection and to stop collection of garbage, if they do not pay user charges for garbage disposal.
Party City Committee secretary B. Ganga Rao demanded that the GVMC stop collection of drainage connection deposits and abolish user charges. He said it was unfortunate that the State government was imposing the additional burden in times of crisis due to the pandemic. He said that the GVMC has issued notices to the public asking them to pay ₹1,000 immediately for UGD connection, failing which water supply would be stopped.