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Change in naxal mindset unlikely: APCC chief

Staff Reporter

`Congress serious about land distribution' `Congress serious about land distribution'

NIZAMABAD: The Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee president, K. Keshava Rao, has sought to scale down expectations over his Gandhi Shanti Sandesh Yatra, saying he has no illusions about the Maoists giving up arms.

Speaking to reporters at Kamareddy on Monday, Dr. Rao who arrived in the district on Sunday night, said he was undertaking the yatra only to take the Gandhian principles of non-violence to people.

It was Mahatma Gandhi who first advocated land to the tiller, and taking a cue from him, the Congress Government after coming to power in the State distributed some 1.5 lakh acres of land to the landless.

"Leaders in the Government are not sitting at the Secretariat. Instead, there are going round villages across the State to learn about people's problems,'' he added.

He said villages were beset with any problems and bore the brunt of violence in the name of caste, creed and religion and division of properties and political ideology.

Later in the day, concluding his yatra at Rajampet village in the district, he said peace would return provided all sections of society made united efforts.

Some people being in abject poverty were committing certain mistakes, he pointed out indirectly referring to the naxalite violence. "Efforts have to be made to make sure that such mistakes will not be committed by people,'' he said.

Dr. Rao was cautious and did not use the word Maoist or naxalite during the course of his speech.

He walked for 16 km in the district from Sarampally in Kamareddy mandal to Rajampet in Biknoor mandal before entering Medak district. The yatra proceeded through Chinna Mallareddy and Lingayapally villages.

The Minister for Rural Development, D. Srinivas joined the yatra at Rajampet, while the Minister for Information and Public Relations, Mohammad Ali Shabbir followed the PCC chief from Kamareddy.

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