Activists of the Telugu Desam Party pressed their demand for a new district with Markapur as its headquarters and symbolically submitted a petition in this regard to a statue of Mahatma Gandhi on his death anniversary, in Kanigiri on Sunday.
The activists, led by former MLA Ugra Narasimha Reddy, who gathered near a statue near the Kanyaka Parameswari temple, said the backward western parts of the district would see development only when a separate district was formed comprising Kanigiri, Markapur, Yerragondapalem and Giddalur Assembly segments. They went in a big procession to the Tehsildar office and symbolically submitted a petition to another Bapuji statue there.
