Kakinada, Sept. 16 -- CPI(M) city committee members staged a dharna in front of the Municipal Corporation office on Cinema Road here on Wednesday, demanding immediate elections to the Kakinada Municipal Corporation.
Addressing the protesters, CPI(M) city unit convenor Palivela Virababu and city committee member Malaka Venkata Ramana questioned the delay in holding elections to the civic body, while elections to the State and Central governments are held every five years.
They alleged that the delay amounted to neglect of the 74th Constitutional Amendment.
The leaders said the Kakinada civic body was upgraded from a municipality to a municipal corporation in 2005, but basic civic facilities had not improved adequately despite an increase ...