The Centre will support all initiatives for development of Visakhapatnam, Union Minister for Urban Development and Parliamentary Affairs M. Venkaiah Naidu has said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had convinced U.S. President Barack Obama to choose Visakhapatnam city for U.S.-funded Smart City project, he said explaining the importance being given to the city by the NDA government. He was speaking at the inauguration of the office of Visakhapatnam MP Kambhampati Haribabu near Appu Ghar here on Friday.
The rapid expansion of the city has a flip side and there were a growing number of cases of forgery of land documents, he noted with alarm. The district administration and the police must act swiftly and crush such crimes before they assume alarming proportions, he said addressing party workers.
Noting with concern the falling standards of elected representatives, he said a leader should be interested in ‘learning and not earning’. “Unfortunately, party workers are more interested in being photographed with leaders than earning a name for their work,” he said and asked the workers to shun pomp and show.
2K Run
Earlier, he took part in a 2k Run organised by ABVP on the Beach Road to mark birth anniversary of Netaji Subash Chandra Bose. He also addressed a meeting on Swachh Bharat and appointed a number of eminent persons from the city as Swachh Bharat ambassadors, including Murali Gannamani of Phoenix Software.
Visakhapatnam Member of Parliament and State BJP president K Haribabu, Anakapalle MP M. Srinivasa Rao, Minister for Education and HRD Ganta Srinivasa Rao, Minister for Health Kamineni Srinivasa Rao, MLAs P.G.V.R. Naidu, P. Vishnu Kumar Raju, Bandaru Satyanarayana Murthy, Palla Srinivasa Rao and Panchakarla Ramesh Babu and former minister M. Jaganmohan Rao, BJP senior leader P.V. Chalapathi Rao, actor Sai Kumar, noted cardiologist B. Soma Raju, BJP financial committee member Ch. Ramakotaiah, and a large number of BJP partymen and women were present.
The Union Minister deplores the falling standards of elected representatives
