Andhra Pradesh

CPI(M) to stall sale of hills

VISAKHAPATNAM: The CPI (M) would prevent the sale of Kapparada hills in the city on which several poor families were living for the last 40 years, through people’s agitation, said party MP and central committee member P. Madhu on Tuesday.

The Government instead of selling the hills should issue pattas to all the poor families living on the Kapparada hills and surrounding areas, Mr. Madhu said while participating in a Padayatra organised by the party in the area.

The government was ready to regularise Government land encroached by land grabbers but was not willing to sanction house site pattas to the poor, he said. Mr. Madhu wanted all parties to put pressure on the Government to sanction house sites to the poor. If the government failed to give pattas, the poor would occupy all vacant lands in the city and erect their huts, he warned. The CPI (M) MP went round Kapparada, Sweepers’ colony, Bapuji Nagar and Indira Nagar colony along with city secretary K. Lokanadham, district secretariat committee member B. Gangarao, party’s Floor Leader in GVMC Botta Eswaramma and other leaders and workers.

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