CPI to launch campaign on irrigation projects in Telangana region

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD, NOV. 26. The CPI has decided to launch a concerted publicity campaign to press the Government to take up irrigation projects in the backward Telangana region from December 11 to 15.

The party's assistant secretary, Mr. K. Narayana, told presspersons here on Sunday that eight teams would tour Khammam, Nalgonda, Karimnagar, Hyderabad, Rangareddi and Mahabubnagar as part of the campaign for a fair deal to the region. The teams would reach Warangal on December 15 where they would address a convention to focus the Government's attention on the steps to be taken to develop Telangana.

The CPI leader said the party wanted the Government to sanction a special package of Rs.5,000 crores for the region. Similarly, it must constitute regional development committees for Andhra, Rayalaseema and Telangana regions, he added.

Mr. Narayana said the party teams would later tour the Rayalaseema districts demanding expeditious completion of pending irrigation projects in the region. Starting from Tirupati on December 18, the leaders would tour Anantapur, Kurnool and Cuddapah districts. A separate team would tour Srikakulam, Visakhapatnam and Vizianagaram and East Godavari from December 12. The party would launch an agitation in February-March if these issues were not addressed by the Government.

The CPI leader demanded implementation of the Supreme Court order stipulating that zilla and mandal parishad elections be held before March 31 next year and an enquiry by a sitting High Court judge into the murder of APCLC leader, T. Purushottam, here last week.

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