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CPI(M) threatens to storm Collectorate on June 6

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Seeks action on civic issues represented by public The demands include ration cards for the poor, hiking the income ceiling for white cards to Rs. 36,000, houses for all, pucca houses at the place of stay and regular supply of drinking water.

VISAKHAPATNAM: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has threatened to lay siege to the Collectorate on June 6 if the issues that cropped up during the party's padayatra were not resolved immediately. The CPI(M) organised a dharna in front of the Mandal Revenue Office on Thursday demanding that the Collector initiate action basing on the people's memoranda submitted on the local issues during the padayatra.

Main demands

Addressing the demonstrators, the party unit secretary, M.V.S. Sarma, said that the CPI(M) had come out with a few main demands to the Congress Government -- ration cards for the poor, hiking the income ceiling for white cards to Rs. 36,000, houses for all, pucca houses at the place of stay, regular supply of drinking water, proper sanitation and employment for the poor, educated unemployed women. All these were promised by the Congress before the elections but after coming to power, it had failed to take any steps on these issues, he said.

"The Government is giving away hundreds of acres of land in the city to private companies like Satyam, Wipro and Infosys, and foreign companies like Volkswagen, but does not bother to provide shelter for the poor," he lamented. The CPI(M) city committee member, B. Gangarao, former corporator, B. Eswaramma, and K. Mohana Rao spoke.

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