Janmabhoomi disrupted at many places

By Our Staff Reporter

KARIMNAGAR, JAN. 4. In a bizarre incident, a farmer of Devampally village of Manakondur mandal was arrested by the Karimnagar rural police on Thursday on the charges of obstructing an MPDO from performing his duties of organising a Janmabhoomi grama sabha in the village.

According to the Karimnagar Rural Circle Inspector, Mr. N. Lakshmikantha Rao, the farmer, Mr. M. Prabhakar Rao (40), had tried to assault the Mandal Parishad Development Officer, Mr. Ch. Srinivas, by holding his shirt collar on Wednesday at Devampally village during the Rythu Janmabhoomi grama sabha. The CI said a case was registered under section 353 IPC and the farmer was arrested on Thursday afternoon and produced before the court.

Our Warangal Staff Reporter writes:

A Sub-Inspector of police was physically lifted and taken some distance by an irate mob of ryots after he hit a person in the crowd at a gram sabha at Ladella village of Atmakur mandal.

Congress supporters disturbed the proceedings at gram sabhas at Mamnoor and Mulkalagudem villages of Hanamkonda mandal, which forced the officials to wind up the meetings without a single item on the agenda being discussed.

At a gram sabha at Mamnoor village of Hanamkonda mandal, Dr. Sriram Reddy, Dean (Agriculture), and Mr. Padmaraju, Director (Extension) of Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, were personally present to share a few thoughts with ryots. But, the belligerant crowd which did not allow the meeting to take place hardly allowed them to speak a word or two.

The hostile crowd led by two local Congress leaders - Mr. P. Narotham Reddy and Mr. S. Kumaraswamy - threw the chairs arranged for the meeting under a shamiana opposite the gram panchayat office in a pell-mell and often incited the police to use force. A few women aided the Congressmen in fuelling tension.

The scene was repeated at Mulkalagudem village, seven kms. away, when the same set of officials and Congress protesters arrived for a series of meetings planned in the mandal during the day. The police appeared overawed by the situation here and needlessly provoked the crowd to rake up tempers.

Boycott in Anantapur

According to a report from Anantapur, several villages boycotted the Janmabhoomi programme in the district by not allowing the conduct of gram sabhas in protest against non- solution of their problems for long.

The activists of opposition parties also disrupted the gram sabhas at several places.

Students of backward classes hostel at Rayadurg gheraoed the nodal team when they went there to conduct the ward meeting in protest against neglect of lack of facilities in their hostel.

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