Warangal Congress flays decision to vacate poor residents at Fort Warangal

Warangal: Congress leaders have objected the State governments’ reported efforts to vacate the residents of SC Colony at Khila Warangal and Jagjivan Ram Colony at Kothawada in Warangal.

The government which forced large number of residents to vacate their houses at SR Nagar in Warangal last month was intending to do the same with residents of SC Colony and Kothawada, alleged city Congress working president Rajanala Srihari here on Thursday.

He demanded the government to first provide alternate shelter to the residents. He alleged that the GWMC officials acting at the behest of Mayor N Narender and Warangal East MLA K Surekha have warned the residents to vacate the houses to make way for development works planned around Fort Warangal.

He said during Congress regime nearly 400 houses at SC Colony and 250 houses at Kothawada were given to the poor. Now the officials and even the local TRS leaders were telling the residents that they would be given double bedroom houses at Doopakunta in the city.

At Doopakunta, construction of only 400 double bedroom houses was started. How the officials accommodate 650 families that would be evacuated from SC Colony and Jagjivan Ram Colony at Doopakunta, Srihari posed.

He demanded the MLA and the Mayor to see that the decision to vacate the residents from the said colonies was withdrawn. He along with several Congress leaders has met the residents of the colonies and assured that the party would stand by them and protect their interests.

“Majority residents of SC Colony and Jagjivan Ram Colony are from poor background. If the government wants to repeat its action taken at SR Nagar in the case the residents here, Congress party would take serious protests,” he warned.