Telangana fluorosis victims get no proposers for filing nomination papers

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.