Parties across the political spectrum lambasted the State government for the reported bid to take over the Government Maternity Hospital building and convert it into the administrative headquarters of Municipal Corporation of Tirupati (MCT).
Activists of the TDP, CPI, Congress and Jana Sena flayed the move as against the interests of the pregnant women, as the hospital at present caters to the gynaecological needs of poor women thronging it from across Rayalaseema.