Completely neglected by candidates, say residents of housing societies

Hyderabad: As campaigning inches closer to the end, residents living across housing societies of greater Hyderabad complained about being completely neglected.
On Saturday, many of these aggrieved residents reached out to STOI, claiming no contesting candidate from any party has even set foot inside their communities so far.
“Even we have unresolved civic issues in our housing society that we wanted to raise with the candidates.But nobody turned up. It is extremely disappointing,” said A Narsimhan, president of Golf View Apartments in Financial District.
A similar grouse was raised by residents of communities across the IT corridor — many of them struggling with the problem of sanitation.
“People’s participation should be given utmost priority. Only then can civic issues, especially sanitation in the city, be resolved effectively,” said Vivek Varma of Jayabheri Orange County, Gachibowli.
While Sageeta Varma, a resident of Jubilee Hills, Road Number 56, said that she saw repersentatives take out rallies through the area, she rued how none of them stopped at their doors.
“There was no door-to-door campaigning held here. We only heard about candidates conducting them in other parts of the city. They should have met the residents here and asked about our grievances as well,” said Varma.
She added, “We wanted to report encroachments and nuisance by commercial establishments haunting locals in residential localities, and ask what measures will be be taken by them.”
Harish Daga, an activist and resident of Himayatnagar, said that the move was unfair on taxpayers.
“Why are grievances of honest taxpayers not being heard? Why don’t they get a chance to have their pending grievances aired/resolved during elections?” he said.
Even his apartment, Daga added, was given a miss by contesting parties.