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Kakinada: Valasapakala villagers stage protest demanding voting rights

Kakinada, Nov 10 (UNI) Residents of Valasapakala, a suburban village of Kakinada, on Tuesday staged a dharna at the Kakinada Municipal Corporation office demanding restoration of their voting rights and merger of their village with the corporation before conducting the municipal elections.
The villagers took out a rally from Valasapakala to the corporation office and raised slogans demanding implementation of the Governor's ordinance for merging six villages -- Valasapakala, Vakalapudi, Ramanaiahpeta, Indrapalem, Cheediga and Toorangi -- which were part of Kakinada rural mandal.
The protesters said the then TDP government had issued a GO 17 years ago for merging these villages with the Kakinada Municipal Corporation, but the process was stalled after some political leaders approached the court and obtained a stay order.
They alleged that residents of Valasapakala had been deprived of voting rights for the past 17 years and that the delay in the merger had adversely affected the village's development, besides depriving it of central funds.
The protest was led by former village Upa-Sarpanch Saladi Srinivasa Babu, village elders Koneti Ramakrishna, Pepakayala Chandrasekhar, Nagababu, RTC Murty, Rama Lakshman, Guttula Krishnamraju, Ginjala Baburao and Pilli Sathibabu.
CPM Kakinada rural mandal convenor Tirumalasetti Nageswara Rao, CITU mandal secretary Thottipudi Raja, Chinthapalli Ajay Kumar and Civic Welfare Association leader Dusarlapudi Ramanaraju also participated.
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