Call to establish Balaji railway division in Tirupati gets louder

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Leaders of assorted  governmental  parties, commercialized   and societal  organisations enactment   successful  the gathering  demanding constitution  of Balaji railway part  successful  Tirupati connected  Sunday.

Leaders of assorted governmental parties, commercialized and societal organisations enactment successful the gathering demanding constitution of Balaji railway part successful Tirupati connected Sunday. | Photo Credit: K.V. POORNACHANDRA KUMAR

The demands made implicit the past 3 decades for the constitution of Balaji railway part headquartered astatine Tirupati got louder connected Sunday, with leaders of assorted governmental parties, societal organisations and chambers of commercialized and commerce expressing enactment for the cause.

Balaji Railway Division Sadhana Samithi, which has spearheaded the movement, conducted a gathering present connected Sunday with each stakeholders to make consciousness connected the benefits of getting a railway part carved retired of the existing Guntakal division.

The thought of a caller part developed successful the 1990s, however, remained a non-starter owed to governmental disinterest, arsenic the contented remained neglected during successive regimes.

“The State’s railway infrastructure got drastically changed aft bifurcation. With a railway portion astatine Visakhapatnam becoming a world and the beingness of 2 divisions (Vijayawada and Guntur) successful the Amaravati region, it is pertinent to get Balaji railway part carved retired successful Tirupati to change the skewed railway landscape”, said Kuppala Giridhar, convener of the Balaji Railway Division Sadhana Samithi.

From the TDP camp, erstwhile MLC B. Changalrayudu, A.P. Yadava Welfare and Development Corporation Chairman G. Narasimha Yadav and the party’s State caput Mabbu Devanarayana Reddy acknowledged that the determination would assistance pat the tourism imaginable of the Rayalaseema region. Deputy Mayor R.C. Munikrishna called it the close clip to realise the people’s aspiration.

BJP person P. Naveen Kumar Reddy saw governmental unit arsenic the crushed down instauration of a part successful Guntur alternatively of successful Tirupati, erstwhile the 9 railway zones were accrued to 16 successful 2003. Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) territory president Akula Satish Kumar, Chamber of Commerce State vice-president K.V. Choudary besides aired akin views.

CPI-M State enforcement subordinate Kandarapu Murali demanded the Union authorities to respect determination aspirations. University professors, authorities teachers, autorickshaw and cab drivers’ relation members, APSRTC commercialized national leaders and CREDAI representatives besides participated.

Published - October 12, 2025 08:11 p.m. IST

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