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Marredpally residents threaten to boycott polls

Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD: Residents of Marredpally have threatened to boycott the GHMC elections in protest against the apathetic attitude of elected representatives and officials in ensuring better civic amenities in their colonies. They are also planning to file Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the High Court seeking its intervention to solve their long-pending problems.

A decision to this effect was taken during a meeting organised under the aegis of the Welfare Association of Residents of Marredpally on Sunday morning. “Why should we support politicians when they are not responding to our problems after getting elected? Elected representatives are least bothered to provide basic amenities in the colonies,” they said.

For the last few years, both East and West Marredpally are beset with bad roads, overflowing drainage water and heaps of garbage in dustbins, stray dogs and monkeys. Officials and elected representatives turned a deaf ear to repeated representations by residents.

Former Minister Talasani Srinivas Yadav, Tourism Minister J. Geetha Reddy and other senior politicians and government officials stay in Marredpally and its surrounding areas but nothing concrete has been done till date to solve the civic problems.

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