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GHMC polls: Lok Satta, CPM, CPI join hands
Lok Satta, CPM and CPI have come together forming an alliance of “One Hyderabad” to promote clean politics and to contest the ensuing Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) elections. Assuring development of the city by giving power to the people, leaders from three parties have released a Common Minimum Programme (CMP) here at Sundarayya Vignana Kendram on Friday.
Hyderabad: Lok Satta, CPM and CPI have come together forming an alliance of “One Hyderabad” to promote clean politics and to contest the ensuing Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) elections. Assuring development of the city by giving power to the people, leaders from three parties have released a Common Minimum Programme (CMP) here at Sundarayya Vignana Kendram on Friday.
The CMP says that if their alliance was elected, it would give power to the people living in the colonies, bastis’ and association of the locality to decide on the kind of amenities to be provided and the repairs needed to be carried out in the locality.
The alliance has promised to bring a Service Guarantee Act, which will ensure citizens get services like water connections, birth and death certificates and the like in a stipulated time frame.
Failing, the CMP guarantees to pay Rs 250 to the citizens as a penalty for non-delivery of services within the time frame prescribed. The alliance promised to make Hyderabad the safest city for women. To make Hyderabad free from pollution and traffic problems, the alliance promised to bring in a better public transport system and issue a single ticket for both train and bus transport.
Maintaining the quality of city roads on par with the National Highway standards, providing drinking water to every household as a right, better sanitation and solid waste management, providing low cost housing for everyone, and regularisation of lands within the city in favour of those living in them for long, shaping Hyderabad as a green city and development of Old City at the same time protecting the inherited heritage from centuries was promised in the CMP.
Lok Satta Telangana State president Dr Pandu Rangarao, national committee members T Krishna Swamy, A Srinivas, CPM secretaries M Srinivas, N Somaiah, K Ravi, and CPI national council member Aziz Pasha and secretary Narasimha Rao released the alliance’s CMP.
