SECUNDERABAD: The sanitation and Covid-19 vaccination drives in Secunderabad Cantonment Board are fast turning into surrogates for election canvassing. While the work done by local public representatives has been welcomed, what hasn’t gone unnoticed is that many are trying to derive electoral mileage out of it.
While there is no certainty on when Cantonment Board polls will be held, aspiring candidates across the eight SCB wards are not leaving anything to chance. Many have organised massive sanitation drives, hired tankers for sanitising localities, helped in arranging vaccination for the needy, and aided people in registering their names through CoWin portal in Cantonment and Secunderabad jurisdictions. However, they have ensured that potential voters know of their work by placing flexies and posters on sanitisation tanks, and social media platforms.
Some of the aspirants have helped launch first and second doses vaccination for people in their area through designated state-owned urban health centres and dispensaries. A former SCB ward member, Pandu Yadav, has arranged a transportation facility to pick and drop people to the vaccination centre in Bowenpally. “The transport facility has been provided for elderly people. I have done it on my own accord,” he told TOI.
Other aspirants have taken to social media to raise awareness about the pandemic and vaccination facilities in their respective wards. Some former ward members have also assisted residential welfare association in organising vaccination drives.
