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The Forum for Good Governance (FGG) connected Sunday organised a face-to-face gathering betwixt contesting candidates and voters of the Jubilee Hills Assembly constituency up of the upcoming byelection. The event, organised astatine the Telangana Union of Working Journalists (TUWJ) bureau successful Basheerbagh, saw spirited exchanges betwixt voters and representatives of large governmental parties.
Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) was represented by Dasoju Sravan Kumar and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by S. Prakash Reddy. Each campaigner was allotted 20 minutes to explicate their party’s ideology and outline developmental plans for the constituency if elected.
Voters raised concerns implicit the transgression records of candidates, questioning the parties’ priorities. They pointed retired that the BJP campaigner faces 5 transgression cases, the B.R.S. campaigner 1 and the Congress campaigner seven. Participants alleged that parties appeared much focused connected fielding ‘winnable’ candidates alternatively than those with cleanable records.
Several civic issues dominated the discussion, including congested roads, encroachments, and mediocre drainage systems successful localities specified arsenic Rahmat Nagar and Erragadda. Residents of Shaikpet complained that they had been demanding nationalist transport connectivity for implicit a decade, but their appeals were routinely ignored erstwhile elections concluded.
In Indira Nagar colony of Yousufguda, voters said the lack of a due pat h2o transportation and the predominant flooding of low-lying areas adjacent aft airy rainfall continued to occupation residents.
Participants noted that galore long-pending civic issues successful the bastis had been ignored for years, lone to beryllium hurriedly addressed up of the byelection. He said that projects worthy ₹200 crore were abruptly sanctioned and immoderate works begun conscionable 2 weeks earlier the predetermination codification came into effect.
FGG president M. Padmanabha Reddy and Secretary Soma Srinivas Reddy moderated the session.
