The Congress party in Hyderabad on Wednesday chose a unique way to protest against the negligence of the state government in repairing roads in Hyderabad, which are full of potholes due to heavy rains in the recent past.
The Congress workers went to different areas and dumped pictures of Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and his son K T Rama Rao in the potholes formed due to bad maintenance of roads.
“The father-son duo is directly responsible for pathetic condition of roads in the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad. KCR has no time to visit any area of the city to check the bad condition of roads while his son KTR, who held the portfolio of Municipal Administration for five years till December 2018, is busy in political activities,” Hyderabad Congress leader Abdulla Sohail said.
He said while KCR was living a lavish lifestyle in his palace Pragathi Bhavan, KTR is available only on Twitter.
“Both have misled the people of Greater Hyderabad in last municipal elections and secured their votes for TRS. But they went missing after TRS gained control over GHMC,” Abdullah Sohail said while speaking to media persons.
Sohail said the condition of roads have turned from bad to worse and today they have turned into ‘killer roads’.
He pointed out that 1,155 were killed and 8,783 in road accidents in the last three-and-a-half years ever since TRS won the GHMC elections. He said bad roads were the major cause of accident in majority of cases.
“GHMC cannot get away by blaming the recent rains for bad conditions of roads. GHMC Commissioner Dana Kishore himself has admitted that there more than 4,000 potholes on city roads. But in reality, the number is much higher. When the GHMC authorities are able to count the number of potholes why is it not filling them up on immediate basis?” he asked.
