VIJAYAWADA: Mayor Koneru Sridhar has slammed the leaders of CPI and the CPM for accusing him of proposing to sell away assets of the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC).
Addressing a news conference here Monday, Sridhar said that after he became mayor, he had done a lot of service to the Corporation unlike the communists who, with their mismanagement, had landed the civic body in debts amounting to `450 crore.
Sridhar said: “The apartments built in the Brindavan Colony are in a very bad shape. The municipal commissioner came up with a proposal to sell them away which I had signed.” He wondered why the communists were crying foul over a measure that would bring cash for the Corporation. He said the proposal was at a rudimentary stage and that it was yet to be introduced in the Council.
Turning the tables on the communists, he said that it was because of them that the civic body’s coffers were almost empty. “There are about 45,000 people living in decent houses on hill-slopes but none of them pays any property tax to the Corporation. This is because the communists had allowed them to construct houses and none of them is poor,” he said.
Sridhar said that when he visited a hill-slope residential area, a woman asked him to take steps for construction of a toilet. “Enquiries revealed that she lives in one of the fours portions of a house. The woman told me that the house owner did not construct toilets,” he added. The mayor said that it has become a habit with the communists to attack him though he was occupying a position that should be respected. “They do not have any respect for the chair. Day in and day out, they keep targeting me though I am not responsible for many of the problems the Corporation is facing. They organise protests with daily wage labourers, promising them house-sites,” he said.
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