Operation Lungs: affected street vendors protest at MLA’s house in Visakhapatnam

A ample fig of thoroughfare vendors, who were affected by ‘Operation Lungs’, an anti-encroachment thrust undertaken by the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) recently, connected Friday staged a protestation successful beforehand of the location of Bheemunipatnam MLA Ganta Srinivasa Rao, seeking alternate spaces for their propulsion carts.

The vendors took portion successful a rally taken retired with the enactment of the CITU from Venkojipalem Junction to Isukathota, earlier reaching the MLA’s house.

The protesters besides staged a sit-in astatine the MLA’s location aft they were stopped by the police.

CITU person P. Venkata Rao said that galore thoroughfare vendors had mislaid their livelihoods owed to ‘Operation Lungs’. He alleged that the cognition was precise well-planned and executed by the GVMC during the lack of people’s representatives successful the city.

He demanded that the MLA indispensable intervene and nonstop the GVMC to initiate measures to supply alternate spaces to the thoroughfare vendors.