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CPI(M) plans 36-hour siege to mandal office

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Protest against delay in implementing poll promises

VIJAYAWADA: Intensifying its agitation against delay on the part of the Government in fulfilling its promises like providing house-site pattas, ration cards and construction of pucca houses for the poor, the city committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has decided to lay a 36-hour siege to the mandal revenue office in the city from 9 a.m. on June 3.

The programme will be preceded by demonstrations from May 29 to 31. The protest is planned as part of the party's decision to educate people on the `negligent' attitude of the Government in solving their problems. Similar programmes are being organised in municipalities and urban areas throughout the State from May 20 and they will culminate on June 5. The CPI (M) has also decided to hoist flags in the Government lands identified for distribution among the poor in and around the city.

Addressing a press conference here on Thursday, the CPI (M) city secretary, Ch. Babu Rao, criticised the Congress for failing to fulfil its pre-poll promises of providing house sites, house-site pattas and pucca houses to poor.

The Government, instead, issued orders (GOs 442, 443 and 444) recently for constitution of land banks for acquiring lands in urban areas for allotment to MLAs, MPs, judges and officials. "The Government has decided to allot whatever land is available to the poor after the well-to-do sections get their share," he said.

Referring to the promises made by the Congress earlier, he said instead of fulfilling its promise of regularising the house sites of the poor residing on the Government lands, ground was being prepared to sell off the lands abutting the canal bunds by evicting residents from there.

In this context, he said that the Government's proposal to implement Rajiv Gruha Kalpa programme would not yield fruitful results as it had several clauses like payment of Rs. 7,500 security deposit, construction of 1+3 model accommodations and moving the slums away from the cities which were against the interests of the poor. The Government should, instead, implement the VAMBAY scheme effectively to ensure that houses were provided to the poor.

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