Vijayawada: Bureaucrats flayed for tough attitude

Vijayawada: Growing protest against the attitude and working styles of the VMC commissioner, and district collector prompted the ruling party’s public representatives to come on a single platform. They have conveyed their displeasure over the functioning of these three bureaucrats, as that is affecting the image of the people’s representatives in the capital region. In-charge minister Pratipati Pulla Rao has assured them that he will place the issue before the Chief Minister.

The MLAs and other public representatives of Krishna district have expressed dissatisfaction over the intrusion of official mechanism into every public issue which became a major point of discussion before Mr Pulla Rao, and interestingly all the ruling party MLAs have expressed their views against the district officials. They alleged that decision taken by the bureaucrats at the district level was neither discussed with the public representatives nor informed even before its execution. Citing the example of food court shifting issue before Dasara, the ruling party MLAs and other public representatives explained to the minister as to how the IAS officers behaved on that night. “They didn’t bother to inform the MLAs and they even didn’t take the local public representatives into confidence,” all the public representatives isaid.

In fact, on the same issue, collector Babu A., and VMC commissioner G. Veerapandyan were advised by the Chief Minister to go according to the wishes of the public. Vijayawada West MLA Gadde Rammohan Rao, on the day itself told the collector that bureaucrats can’t bypass the public representatives while taking decisions and executing them. The same points were again brought to the notice of Mr Pulla Rao, and in turn the minister said that the issue will be brought to the notice of the Chief Minister for an amicable solution.