Telangana's Municipal Administration and Urban Development Minister KT Rama Rao has sought the intervention of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh for reopening of the roads closed in the Secunderabad Cantonment area. In a letter to Rajnath Singh, the minister requested him for the removal of unauthorized roadblocks in the Cantonment area and that it should reopen again for traveling purposes.
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He urged Rajnath Singh to interfere and issue orders to instruct the local authorities not to indulge in such closures of roads without following the standard SOP and without having the necessary authorization from the authorities concerned in respect of all the roads in Secunderabad Cantonment.
The minister also stated that the local military authorities resort to regulating the traffic at their will on certain roads, which are otherwise the "lifeline" to these parts of the city, being the only connecting road, causing untold misery and hardship to the local citizens. Frequent and mostly sudden and unannounced closure of these important roads such as AOC Road and Gough Road on previous occasions has resulted in widespread resentment among the citizens.