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A meeting, organised by the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) to invited caller entrants into the party, ended successful a protestation aft the Visakhapatnam Metropolitan Region Development Authority (VMRDA) officials, who initially gave permission, aboriginal revoked it citing that the VMRDA premises cannot beryllium utilized for governmental meetings.
The gathering was scheduled for 10.30 a.m. astatine the VMRDA Children’s Theatre astatine Siripuram, connected Monday. When the organisers reached the venue astatine astir 10 a.m. and were making past infinitesimal arrangements, VMRDA unit arrived, evicted the organisers from the theatre and locked the doors.
Some of the enactment workers and YSRCP leaders reached the spot and asked the VMRDA unit crushed for declining support aft granting it. Later, enactment workers and leaders staged a protestation squatting connected the road, extracurricular the VMRDA Arena main gross and raised slogans against the ruling Alliance government.
When contacted by The Hindu, erstwhile Minister Gudivada Amarnath said: “We paid ₹70,000 online for booking the hall. In the requisition signifier we intelligibly mentioned that the gathering was being held to invited caller members into the party. Our lawsuit managers mounting up the LED screens and decorations, erstwhile the VMRDA unit came and locked the theatre doors from outside, aft sending retired the organisers.”
VMRDA Secretary Muralikrishna said successful a connection said: “The VMRDA Children’s Arena cannot beryllium utilized for governmental meetings. The venue was booked online successful the sanction of Dharmala Anand Kumar for a ‘get together’ programme. However, they were preparing to clasp a governmental gathering owed to which the support was declined. The VMRDA facilities tin lone beryllium utilized to behaviour auspicious functions, children’s programmes and schoolhouse functions.”
