HYDERABAD: Activists and victims of fluorosis faced a roadblock in Varanasi while filing their nominations.
On the last day of filing of nominations for the seat from where Prime Minister
Narendra Modi is in the fray, only two activists from Prakasam in Andhra Pradesh were able to file their nominations.
No one from
Telangana was able to file nominations because they were unable to get 10 local proposes for each contestant.
Vadde Srinivas, president of Veligonda Sadhana Samithi and Kolluru Ravi Kiran Sharma of the association fr-om Prakasam in Andhra Pradesh filed their nominations.
According to Sudheer Jalagam, an activist who went from Telangana, eight persons were to file their nominations in all — four each from AP and Telangana. Sudheer Jalagam reached Varanasi along with K Subhash, of Fluorosis Vimukthi Porata Samithi from Nalgonda in Telangana to file their nominations.
“Our nominations were disallowed as we could not get the required number of 10 local proposers,” Sudheer Jalagam said. The nominations of fluorosis victims could also not be filed because of that.
Sudheer Jalagam said he submitted a representation to the returning officer that because of the rule, six persons were unable to contest the polls. He suggested that the 10 proposers for a candidate should be from any place in the country and not necessarily local from the particular Lok Sabha constituency.
The activists from Telangana wanted to highlight the fact that a Rs 100 cr fluorosis mitigation centre was yet to be set up in Nalgonda, though the centre sanctioned it.
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Read MoreSushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyderabad. He began his journalism career at the age of 20 in 1988. He is a gold medalist in journalism from the Department of Communication and Journalism, Arts College, Osmania University, Hyderabad from where he did his post-graduation from. He has been with The Times of India’s Hyderabad edition since its launch in 2000. He has also done an introductory course in film studies from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and also from the Central University of Kerala equipping himself with the knowledge of filmmaking for film criticism. He has authored four books. In his career spanning 34 years, he has worked for five newspapers and has also done television reporting. He was also a web journalist during internet’s infancy in the mid 1990s in India. He covers defence, politics, diaspora, innovation, administration, the film industry, Hyderabad city and Telangana state, and human interest stories. He is also a podcaster, blogger, does video reporting and makes documentaries.
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