By SNV Sudhir
More than half the state Cabinet ministers, MPs, a few Union
ministers, and around 50 MLAs, bureaucrats, leaders of various political
parties are going to reach Vizag from Tuesday to attend wedding of ports and
infrastructure minister, Ganta Srinivas Rao’s daughter.
Police and other district officials were busy in security
arrangements, to provide accommodation and other protocol obligations to the
VVIP guests on the list.
The high profile wedding is slated to be held on Wednesday
morning. Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, Governor, E.S.L. Narasimhan
and Tamil Nadu Governor K. Rosaiah have confirmed their coming.
With the government circuit house having limited
accommodation and given the long list of the guests, officials had to find
rooms for them at star hotels on the Beach
Road and at guest houses belonging to various PSUs
located in the vicinity.
To avoid any embarrassment, GVMC staff had worked overtime
to repair the potholes on the road leading to the wedding venue — AU
Engineering College Grounds — where a huge film set was erected.
Artisans and Tollywood workers from Hyderabad were sweating it out for a week to
construct the venue. Union tourism minister K. Chiranjeevi would be the main
attraction at the wedding while political observers are waiting to see if TD
chief N. Chandrababu Naidu would attend the wedding or not.
Ganta Srinivasa Rao has begun his political career as a TD
MP from Anakaplle and there are speculations that he is likely to switch
over to the regional party shortly due to the Congress decision to
bifurcate the state. Rao too personally visited Naidu to invite him to
the wedding.
There were many rounds of meetings by the senior district
officials and the police on the arrangements. "We have entrusted the
job of accommodation of a minister to the respective department
staff. However, we are reviewing and monitoring the protocol and other
issues from time to time so that there will not be any lapses," said
a senior district official.
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