Elect honest people in Civic polls

Khammam: Communist Party of India (CPI-Marxist) state secretary Tammineni Veerabhadram urged the people to elect honest persons in the ensuing Khammam Corporation Elections. A meeting with the party leaders and activists was held at Sundaraiah Bhavan here on Friday under the leadership of A Kanakaiah.

Veerabhadram criticised that the ruling party was playing all sorts of cheap tricks by encouraging the leaders to change parties and purchasing a few openly from other parties. Earlier, Chandrababu Naidu and Y S Rajashekara Reddy also played same type of cheap politics and were perished. KCR was also following them by killing the democracy and political values in the State, he alleged.

The CPM leader observed that it was very dangerous to adopt such type of undemocratic methods to win the elections at any cost. After coming to the power, the TRS party forgot that it led a massive movement for separate Telangana. Instead it was following the foot-steps of TDP and Congress, much to the disappointment Telangana people.

The CPM had ruled Khammam Municipality for longer period without giving any scope for corruption and not bending to the conditions of the World Bank. It also minimised the tax burden on people by utilising the funds in a proper way for the development of Khammam Municipality under the Chairmanship of Chirravuri Lakshminarayana and Afroz Sameena, he added.

He opined that the people of Khammam district will not encourage those, who are opportunistic, who change parties and those who pollute the politics by investing money during the elections. CPM district secretary Pothineni Sudarshan Rao said that both CPM and CPI along with social organisations and other democratic parties would contest in the coming Corporation elections.