Leading anti-corruption movement & supporting scam-tainted metro project simultaneously

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Ramachandraiah Chigurupati

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Jul 15, 2011, 9:25:55 PM7/15/11
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Leading anti-corruption movement on one side and promoting a scam-tainted project on the other?  What do you infer from it? Mr. Laxman Reddy of Jana Chaitanya Vedika (JCV) is a leading member in the Citizen Forum Against Corruption in AP. Srinivas Reddy of APSA and Dr. Rao Chelikani are also active in it.

 

Hyderabad metro is pushed without sharing its documents and without a public debate. Lack of transparency will result in a scam. Instead of demanding an open debate on it, the three of them in the anti-corruption movement want to do a big favour to the scam-tainted metro project.

 

They are holding a pro-metro debate in SVKendram on Saturday (16 July) with NVS Reddy, metro MD, as the main speaker, and Jeevananda Reddy, Vijaya Babu (editor of Andhra Prabha) and a couple of retired engineers as other speakers. These speakers have nothing to do with public transportation either in terms of understanding the issue or in terms of involving in any activism for the same.

 

And on Sunday (17 July) the three activists are holding the state convention of the Forum Against Corruption in Hyderabad. No wonder, the civil society's credibility is not high in the public. That is the tragedy of our times.

 


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Dr. C. Ramachandraiah
Professor in Urban Studies
Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS)
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