CPI plea to PWG

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD, JULY 3. The CPI has urged the People's War Group of naxalites not to issue any threats to CPI candidates contesting the Panchayat elections in agency areas of Visakhapatnam district. The CPI said one CPI candidate received a death threat from the local PWG unit, and this was ``indeed sad, because this only helps landlords and other anti-people sections.'' The CPI said the PWG could appeal to people to boycott elections, but threats and harassment shows lack of support to their line of thinking.

In another statement, the CPI cautioned the Chief Minister, Mr N. Chandrababu Naidu, that many factionists had been elected unopposed to Mandal Parishad and Zilla Parishad territorial constituencies in Kurnool district. ``The call of the Chief Minister to women to defeat bad people, even if they were nominated by the TDP, cannot be implemented if they are elected unanimously,'' the CPI said.

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