Newskarnataka – Mangalore

Mangalore: The Aam Aadmi Party of Dakshina Kannada has announced Marpalli Ramayya Vasudeva, better known as M R Vasudeva as its Lok Sabha candidate for the Mangalore constituency.
M R Vasudeva is the former director Mangalore International Airport. He is an ISO lead auditor and has widely traveled overseas to give seminars. He has been in the local circuit of resource persons in management, engineering, as well as socio-economic issues as a visiting faculty member at Srinivas College of Engineering.

M R Vasudev said, “Dakshina Kannada is a jewel of the Konkan coast that has been neglected by the State Government and the Centre. I had to overcome innumerable obstacles in developing the Airport as a bureaucrat, with support coming from the State and Center in bits and pieces, and that too given after repeated requests. The airport was completed by the sheer grit and determination of my team. The condition of DK is dismal.

“We have been nice for too long and given so much more and received very little. Now they want to take our water by diverting the Netravati! We understand the neighbouring regions have a water problem, but it cannot be solved by tampering with a resource given to us by Mother Nature. We must have an independent water committee to solve water usage and distribution issues, he added.

The Aam Aadmi Party of Dakshina Kannada district was launched on February 15, 2013, by Yogendra Yadav, AAP national executive. It was the first AAP unit to be formed in Karnataka.