Gloom and despair have set in among the elite sections of people as Prakasam district is trifurcated with Kandukur Assembly segment clubbed with SPSR Nellore district and the eastern parts merged with Bapatla district carved out from Guntur district.
Disappointment was writ large among the protagonists of a new Markapur-headquartered district, comprising the western parts of Prakasam district, who had spearheaded a two-month-long agitation to press for clubbing together the Assembly segments of Kanigiri, Darsi, Yerragondapalem, Giddalur and Marakapur.
