AIMIM President and Hyderabad Lok Sabha MP Asaduddin Owaisi today took a dig at the erstwhile Congress regime for the utter neglect of the Old City in various aspects.
Speaking at a function organized in connection with the Swachch Hyderabad program in the Dabeerpura area of the Old City in which Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao participated, Owaisi highlighted various issues confronting the people of the area, especially with regard to civic amenities.
While highlighting the problems being faced by the people, Owaisi took potshots at the previous Kiran Kumar Reddy government when he made a snide remark that "the Old City suffered during the last four years due to the callousness and incompetence of the then CM" due to which the drainage and sanitation in the area were in an awful condition.
There was an acute shortage of even drinking water in the area, he said, and he was thankful to the present CM KCR for immediately responding to requests to set right the mistakes of the past.
Owaisi stressed the urgent need for constructing a water reservoir to mitigate the water needs of the people in the area and also for taking up drainage works on a war footing, which KCR immediately agreed to and which saw him give the necessary instructions to the concerned officials. (NSS)
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