KURNOOL: Amid the gram panchayat elections, a majority of villages in Adoni and Kurnool divisions are seeing people migrating to the cities. Though poll candidates are requesting them to stay on till the completion of the polls, the workers are not showing any interest.
At least 15,000 families from the district have left to Guntur, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Chennai and other cities. Some of the aspirants even offered money and other benefits to the workers to keep them back but in vain.
Veeramma, a worker from Nelakosigi, said that their livelihood was more important than the elections. “Even though the entire family goes for work locally, they cannot earn even Rs 400 in a day,” she stated. “In cities like Guntur, Hyderabad, Bengaluru and other places, each person gets more than Rs 800 per head.”
Her family including her husband and two children go to Guntur in every season. If the government provides ample employment, there is no need to go to any other place,…