Greater Hyderabad BJP president and MLC N Ramchender Rao today urged Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to keep the two roads in the cantonment area of Secunderabad that the Army wants closed to the public, open till the alternative roads were ready.
Rao, who met the Defence Minister in Delhi, submitted a memorandum seeking her intervention in keeping open the two roads that passed through the military areas.
Three years ago, a night closure was imposed on these roads by the Local Military Authorities (LMA) from 10 pm to 7 am. But after a series of intense discussions between the Ministry of Defence and the Telangana government, it was decided that Army and the Telangana government would jointly find a permanent solution by creating two alternative roads, one from R K Puram to Safilguda and the other from Safilguda to Entrenchment Road.
About 20 lakh commuters used these roads every day, and life would become a torment for them if they were closed as they passed through the heart of Secunderabad, he said.
The BJP MLC urged the Defence Minister to take up the issue with the local Army authorities and as well as with the government of Telangana.