JSP corporator flays Gudivada Amarnath for complaint against NDA leaders in Visakhapatnam
The Hindu
JSP corporator criticizes YSRCP district president for remarks on no-confidence motion, alleging corruption and police misuse.
JSP corporator P.L.V.N. Murthy came down heavily on former Minister and YSRCP district president Gudivada Amarnath for his remarks on the no-confidence motion proposed against the Mayor of Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC).
Mr. Murthy flayed Mr. Amarnath for lodging a complaint to the district Collector against NDA leaders wherein he alleged that they resorted to harassment, intimidation and exertion of influence on YSRCP corporators.
In a press conference on Wednesday, Mr. Murthy asserted that the no-confidence motion was proposed by NDA corporators as they wanted to draw public attention to the allegations of large-scale corruption by the YSRCP.
The JSP corporator also criticised Mr. Amarnath’s statements against the city police personnel. Mr. Murthy accused YSRCP of misusing the police force when it led the government between 2019 and 20204.
He highlighted cases where the police were accused of manhandling NDA leader Raghurama Krishna Raju and of assaulting K. Sudhakar, a doctor from Narsipatnam, during the reign of the YSRCP-led government.

At PV Cherian Crescent Road, which derives its quietude in no small measure from the trees lining it, the axe struck twice last week, the first time on December 7, reducing one massive tree to a stump. According to a resident who wants to stay anonymous, when the workers were questioned about it, pat came the reply that the Corporation had ordered the hand that wielded the axe. With that explanation, residents who were disturbed by the cutting of the tree assumed there should be a justification for the act and let the matter rest. On December 12, the axe struck again, the Avenue’s arboreal wealth down by one more tree.

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