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“Compete — and gain your spot successful this picture.” That’s the striking connection connected a flex featuring a blank abstraction with a question people — reserved for the campaigner who yet steps guardant to hole the road. Residents accidental that’s the look they privation to spot occupying that space.
To gully attraction to the pathetic information of a roadworthy lying successful ruins for a year, section residents person enactment up eye-catching flex boards crossed Punkunnam. They privation the candidates to spot the hardship residents look daily.
One of the flex reads: “For the past year, this has been our lived reality. We don’t privation to perceive authorities oregon excuses. You don’t adjacent person to locomotion this breached roadworthy to recognize our struggle. Fix it — and we volition ballot for you, whoever you are. May your look gain a spot successful this frame, and successful our hearts.”
The roadworthy from Shankaramkulangara Temple to Udayanagar 9th Street has remained damaged for astir a year, mostly owed to a backstage builder’s flat operation and dense vehicles rerouted done it erstwhile Puzhakkal Road was closed. As trucks and different ample vehicles trundled through, the roadworthy was severely damaged.
Though the Mayor had convened meetings of residents’ associations and backstage builders to sermon repairs, nary enactment followed. The BJP accused the Mayor of “playing politics” by withholding funds for the division. As the predetermination vigor intensified, parties seemed to hide the contented altogether — prompting residents to punctual them with these sharp, symbolic flex boards.
The boards person been installed astatine locations including the Ayyanthole Karthyayani Temple area, Saraswathi Vidyanikethan School vicinity, and Shankaramkulangara Temple junction.
