Date:12/06/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/06/12/stories/2007061215040300.htm

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Andhra Pradesh - Anantapur

CPI(M) stages dharna

Staff Reporter

Government urged to lift cases against land occupants

Demand for 200 acres land close to town for poor

Awareness campaign on Indiramma scheme planned

RED MARCH: CPI(M) activists taking out a procession seeking house sites and houses for poor at Anantapur on Monday.

ANANTAPUR: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) staged a dharna in front of the RDO's office here on Monday seeking house sites for the poor, rights on the sites already in the occupation of the poor, houses and land for cultivation.

The party activists had earlier come in a procession from the party office.

Speaking at the protest, former member of Rajya Sabha from Telugu Desam Party P K.M. Saifullah said that their party had been supporting the CPI (M) agitation as its demands were judicious.

He criticised the State Government for registering cases against the poor for agitating for house sites. He demanded the Government lift these cases.

CPI (M) leaders M. Imtiaz, V. Rambhupal and others alleged that the Government was unmoved by the plight of the poor though they had been making rounds of revenue offices seeking house

sites for the last three years. Though there were about 200 acres Government land available within two kms of the town in survey numbers 116, 119, 159 and 206 the Government was not inclined to allocate the land to the poor. Meanwhile, the party has planned an awareness campaign on the alleged failure of Indiramma scheme in wards from June 12 to 15.