Mayor corrupt : says Currpt Deputyin Viskhaptanm

Visakhapatnam
Nov. 12: The Congress virtually split into two groups in the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation council with the deputy mayor, Mr K. Dorababu, levelling serious allegations against the mayor, Mr Pulusu Janardhana Rao, that he was involved in a Rs 1,000-crore scam.

For the first time in the history of the corporation, the Congress leaders washed their own dirty linen in the open council held on Thursday. The allegation shook the council and the opposition Telugu Desam and the CPI (M) demanded an enquiry with the later seeking a CBI probe.
There were heated argum-ents and the house was adjo-urned twice to bring down the tension. Finally, the me-eting was called off by the mayor without giving an op-portunity to the deputy may-or to speak further.
The corporation, in the sta-nding council meeting held recently, decided to handov-er the solid waste management to two MNCs under the “wealth out of waste” scheme. The decision came up for approval in the council meeting on Thursday.
Mr Dorababu charged that the standing council had no right to take a decision and it involved a scam of Rs 1,000 crore. Reacting sharply, Co-ngress corporator Bhaskara Rao said this was not a fo-rum to discuss the issue and the deputy mayor should quit his post and level allegation as a corporator. Mr Dorababu’s followers swu-ng into a heated argument with Mr Bhaskara Rao and they were joined by TD corporators who demanded that the deputy mayor disclose the entire scam. The TD corporators swarmed the podium forcing the mayor to adjourn the council for 15 minutes.
When the meeting resum-ed the mayor announced th-at awareness would be created among the members on the “wealth out of waste” but the corporators irrespective of political affiliations, except the mayor’s supporters, demanded that the deputy mayor speak about the scam. The mayor said Mr Dorababu, who is power-hungry, is politicising the issue and walked out of the council adjourning the House indefinitely. Mr Dorababu told reporters that the mayor had adjourned the House to tamper the files.