Date:09/09/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/09/09/stories/2007090955110600.htm

Andhra Pradesh

CPI (M) activists pitch huts in assigned land

Staff Reporter

GUNTUR: Supported by Communist Party of India (Marxist) activists about a 1,000 people occupying about 165 acres of assigned land in Adavaithakkelapadu village for past 10 days adjoining Guntur Municipal Corporation limits began constructing huts on Saturday.

The party district secretary D. Rama Devi said that about 300 acres of land was given to 60 persons long ago in the village, but it was sold away to several people and the District Administration had resumed 200 acres out of that, while some people had gone to court against the notice served on them to vacate the land.

“We are demanding the State Government to re-assign the land to the poor instead of handing it over to VGTMUDA or using it for Rajiv Swagruha or Gruhakalpa schemes. While Government has some land in its possession, the remaining would also be assumed by it,” she observed.

The party supporters would continue to occupy the land and begin construction of permanent huts in a big way from Sunday. She said that after four months of land struggle, the CPI(M) had decided to stay put in the land they had occupied.