Anantapur Cong. MLAs, others plan to quit

By Our Staff Reporter

ANANTAPUR, NOV. 10. In an unprecedented move the Anantapur District Congress Committee (DCC) on Saturday resolved that the mandal parishad presidents (MPPs), ZPTC members, municipal chairpersons and legislators of the party would submit their resignations to the Chief Minister, Mr. N.Chandrababu Naidu, soon in protest against the Government's ``failure to provide security to the lives of Congressmen in the district.''

On meeting the Chief Minister they would plead with the former either to protect their lives from ruling TDP men in the district or to accept resignations from their posts, it was resolved. The party has six legislators, four municipal chairpersons, 29 ZPTC members and 34 mandal parishad presidents in the district.

The meeting expressed dismay that Congressmen were not being provided security in spite of repeated representations to the Superintendent of Police. Even the Home Minister and the Chief Minister had failed to hold their assurances in the matter, the meeting felt.

The DCC president, Mr. A.Venkatarami Reddy, alleged that the MPPs of Yadiki and Pedda Pappur were murdered at the hands of the ruling TDP leaders even as police officials were being requested regularly to provide security to them. He alleged that the Superintendent of Police had completely failed in protecting the lives of Congressmen.

He called upon partymen in the district to fight the excesses of the TDP. He stated that 224 Congress leaders and workers had been killed in the district since the TDP's coming to power in 1994. All these murders were committed according to a plan and with the full knowledge of the Chief Minister, he alleged.

The deputy leader of the CLP, Mr. J.C.Diwakar Reddy, said his requests to the Home Minister and the Chief Minister seeking protection to Congressmen had fallen on deaf ears. Murder politics in the district had now spread from Penukonda to the Tadipatri constituency. He reasoned that TDP leaders were killing Congress leaders as the former had earned crores of rupees as MPPs and ZPTCs and when they were defeated now they had resorted to the killings with a grudge that their ways of earning had been closed.

The legislators - Messrs N.Raghuveera Reddy, P.Venugopal Reddy, B.Narayana Reddy and Y.Sivarami Reddy - also spoke on the issue. The former Ministers - Messrs N.Gadi Lingappa and Mohd. Shakir - and the former MP, Mr. S.Gangadhar, also expressed concern over lack of security to the lives of Congressmen in the district.

The meeting also passed resolutions on continuation of `food for work' programme, filling tanks under Penna Ahobilam Balancing Reservoir, taking up Handri Neeva project with 40 TMC ft capacity, urging the Chief Minister to take initiative to talk to the Karnataka Chief Minister on taking up the Tungabhadra flood flow canal project and repairs to all tanks and water bodies in the district.

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