VISAKHAPATNAM: The city council of Communist Party of India (CPI) will stage a dharna in front of the Collectorate on Monday to press for the demand to recover the lands encroached by the affluent and distribute them among the poor on the outskirts of the city.

Announcing this at a press conference here on Sunday, the city council secretary, Chalasani Raghavendra Rao, said that demonstrations, storming the revenue offices and other programmes on the issue were organised in the past and the district administration had promised to conduct a survey of the lands.

"Even though many MLAs had represented the matter to the district administration but nothing happened so far. The affluent continue to hold possession the prime lands of the Government. They have built building complexes and even sold them. On the other hand, the district officials are harassing the poor slum dwellers and evicting them. If the same apathetic attitude is continued, our party would force its way and distribute the lands among the poor," he warned.

A couple of days ago, the revenue officials demolished the huts in Survey no: 164/1 even when the village leaders of Chinamushidivada in Pendurthi mandal like the sarpanch, Mummana Demudu and his brother, Dalinaidu, were going on selling spree of Government lands as their own. Though we lodged complaints on this, the officials have failed to stop them,'' the CPI leader lamented.

The situation was so grave that out of 395 acres of Government land, only about ten acres or so was left with the entire land encroached by the affluent, he alleged.

The Government, which had agreed to give pattas six months ago to the eligible in the 100 acres which was under the cultivation of the poor in Valimeraka Jutthada village of Pendurthy mandal in Survey nos: 98 and 99, had not initiated any action so far, he said.

The CPI city council members, K. Venkatraju, P. Venkateswarlu and Pilli Veerraju were also present during the press conference.

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