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Muthanga: CPI plans collectorate march

By Our Special Correspondent

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM March 4. The CPI State executive has decided to organise a collectorate march in all districts on March 10 to press for a judicial inquiry into the police firing on Adivasis at Muthanga on February 19 and early distribution of land to the landless Adivasis. In Thiruvananthapuram, the march would be to the State secretariat.

The CPI State executive, which concluded its two-day meeting here today, also decided to hold a march to the Wayanad Collectorate on March 6 and surround the Attappadi tribal office. The CPI State executive would meet again on March 14 to take stock of the situation and, in case there is no positive response from the Government, chalk out further agitational programmes. A CPI State executive release here today accused the Government of having done little to check the police atrocities on Adivasis. It was still not clear how many Adivasis had died in the police firing and no attempt was being made by the police to provide information about the missing persons.

A comprehensive judicial inquiry was essential to bring out all the facts about the Muthanga incident. Besides political parties, voluntary organisations, writers and cultural persons had raised the demand. Even some senior ruling front leaders had openly come out with the demand. The Government's reluctance to order a probe despite all this was a sure sign of its fear that any such inquiry would bring out the actual facts, the CPI executive said.

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