Army Roads Closure: City MPs Meet Defence Minister

Cutting across party lines, Lok Sabha MPs from Hyderabad on Tuesday met Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar requesting him to postpone the Army restrictions on AOC roads from January 1.

A delegation comprising MPs Ch Malla Reddy, B Vinod Kumar, Jitender Reddy, Visweswar Reddy and Patil, and Malkajgiri MLAs C Kanaka Reddy and Gundu Sudha Rani, called on Parrikar in Parliament in New Delhi and submitted a petition signed by 16 MPs including K Kavitha and others.

The Resident Welfare Association Of Malkajgiri's B T Srinivasan, B A Pramod Kumar and Kannamalla Nagaraj, along with the above Members of Parliament, submitted an alternative road plan and requested the Defence Minister, the Minister of State for Defence Rao Indrajit Singh and HRD Minister Venkaiah Naidu to instruct the Army not to impose any restrictions till the alternative roads were ready.

The Defence Minister assured that he would speak to the concerned Defence officials to postpone the Army road closure for six months and that a committee would study the alternative roads plan. (INN)