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`Praja assembly' to be held on August 14

By Our Special Correspondent

VISAKHAPATNAM, AUG. 5. A `praja assembly' on `public sector-privatisation' will be conducted in the city on August 14.

Announcing this at a press conference here on Thursday, the State convener of the `praja assembly nirvahana committee', D. Punna Rao, said the committee was trying to highlight people's problems that were to be raised during the talks between the People's War and the State Government.

As many as 37 people's organisations and advocates of democracy joined to form the committee so as to protect the rights of people and ensure that the pre-poll promises of the ruling parties at the State and the Centre were implemented for the benefit of the public.

The `praja assemblies' were being held to gather the public opinion and they would not be like the assembly of people's representatives but deal with the problems threadbare, he claimed.

Decision hailed

Welcoming the decision of the Government to hold talks with the People's War, Mr. Punna Rao said the new Government should remember that it came to power as people had resented the nine-year- old `misrule' of Chandrababu Naidu.

"The talks should not be held within four walls but should be made public. All the issues concerning people like farmers' suicide and endless drought in Rayalaseema region should be discussed.

Also, let us know why the accused in the Tsunduru killings are moving in the open with impunity,'' he observed.

Wage revision

The AIFTU leader, Rashtrapathi, who was present, said that it was a pity that the rulers were not bothered about the wage revision due to workers every ten years even while the wages of MLAs and MPs were increased three-fold during the last five years.

The State executive member of the Revolutionary Writers' Association (Virasam), Chalasani Prasad, said that the word democracy was only heard but never witnessed anywhere.

The representative of the Struggle Committee Against Privatisation (SCAP), P.V. Ramana, noted that the NDA Government was defeated as it favoured privatisation of the public sector.

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