Create new dist. with Markapur as headquarters, demands TDP

‘Only then the backward western region of Prakasam will see development’

Activists of the Telugu Desam Party pressed their demand for a new district with Markapur as its headquarters and symbolically submitted a petition in this regard to a statue of Mahatma Gandhi on his death anniversary, in Kanigiri on Sunday.

The activists, led by former MLA Ugra Narasimha Reddy, who gathered near a statue near the Kanyaka Parameswari temple, said the backward western parts of the district would see development only when a separate district was formed comprising Kanigiri, Markapur, Yerragondapalem and Giddalur Assembly segments. They went in a big procession to the Tehsildar office and symbolically submitted a petition to another Bapuji statue there.

Meanwhile, TDP MLAs Gottipatti Ravikumar, Dola Bala Veeranjaneya Swamy and Yeluri Sambasiva Rao from Prakasam district dubbed “unscientific” the Jagan Mohan Reddy government’s decision to create Bapatla district by clubbing with it three Assembly segments of Addanki, Parchur and Chirala, and reuniting Kandukur revenue division with SPSR Nellore district.