The Greater Visakha City Committee of CPI (M) condemned the ‘forcible shifting’ of Gudiwada Amarnadh, who was on an indefinite fast seeking the announcement of the new railway zone with Visakhapatnam as its headquarters, to the King George Hospital late on Sunday night.
In a statement on Monday, CPI (M) city committee secretary B. Ganga Rao condemned the action of the police in evicting the fasting YSRC leader from the hunger strike camp near the Gandhi statue. Describing it as an ‘undemocratic act’, Mr. Ganga Rao alleged that Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu was using the police force to suppress the movement, which was growing stronger by the day with public support.
He said that the AP Reorganisation Act provides for establishment of a new railway zone within six months. Though it was almost two years that the NDA and the TDP governments came to power at the Centre and in the State respectively, they were dodging the railway zone issue. He alleged that both parties were looking for their own political mileage and were delaying the announcement of the zone.
Mr. Chandrababu Naidu was more interesting in continuing his alliance with the BJP at the Centre rather than protecting the interests of the people of the State and was therefore not exerting any pressure on the Centre on the issue. Mr. Ganga Rao alleged that the TDP MLAs were fanning regional differences on the railway zone issue with the objective of shifting the proposed railway zone from Visakhapatnam to Amaravathi.
