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KHAMMAM: Communist Party India (CPI) national council member Puvvada Nageswara Rao on Wednesday opposed the trifurcation of Khammam district.

Mahabubabad and Kothagudem will be the new districts carved out of Khammam. At the party office, Rao said that placing Garla and Bayyaram mandals in Mahabubabad would prove to be detrimental to Khammam because the two mandals were rich in iron-ore and demanded their retention in Khammam.

He said that a steel factory was proposed in Bayyram mandal because of years of struggle by the people of Khammam.