Left parties protest GVMC’s proposed ‘tax on walking’

Members of CPI and CPI(M) staged protests against the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) connection to enforce yearly idiosyncratic charges connected walkers astatine nationalist facilities specified arsenic Indira Priyadarshini Municipal Stadium and Swarna Bharathi Indoor Stadium. The activists called specified ideas ‘anti-people’, and called for their contiguous withdrawal.

The Maddilapalem Zonal Committee of CPI(M) leaders staged a objection successful beforehand of the Swarna Bharathi Indoor Stadium. CPI(M) person RKSV Kumar powerfully criticised the GVMC and termed it arsenic a ‘tax connected walking’. He alleged that the GVMC is burdening its citizens with further charges for basal amenities. He besides alleged that the thought to enforce idiosyncratic charges is simply a 1 much effort to privatise nationalist spaces, including parks, stadiums and assemblage halls, nether the public-private concern (PPP) model.