Mixed response to AAP’s decision to shun security

Rajahmundry: The decision of the new government in the national capital New Delhi under Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) to discard the official bungalows, the red beacons official cars besides security has received mixed response from the leaders and public.

While the people especially those who have been anticipating clean and good governance carefully observe these as an indication of return of transparency in to the administration in the very near future, the leaders of Congress. the TDP and the YSR Congress express divergent views on the issue.

While welcoming the decision of Arvind Kejriwal's, 20-point programme implementation committee chairperson and East Godavari district Congress party in-charge, Dr N. Tulasi Reddy said that a few others leaders had also adopted such simplicity in the past.

He said that former Prime Minister late P. V. Narasimha Rao, former West Bengal chief ministers Jyoti Basu, Buddadeb Bhattacharya and present chief minister Mamata Banerjee also adopted this simplicity.

TD leader Chikkala Ramachandra Rao said that security was a must for the minister He felt that security protocol was intended to regulate the movement of people during their visits and in meeting the minister concerned.

YSR Congress leader and MLC Boddu Bhaskara Rama Rao said that it was only a publicity stunt to draw people’s attention