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VOCIFEROUS PROTEST FOR PEOPLE'S PROBLEMS: Leaders of the CPI picketing the office of Municipal Corporation at Kurnool on Monday.
KURNOOLANANTAPUR: The picketing programme of the CPI at Adoni and Nandyal turned violent on Monday as protesters ransacked furniture in municipal offices. At Adoni, the police took into custody 15 persons. At Nandyal, protestors ransacked furniture as the municipal staff were found working even after their protest. They dumped a few tables and chairs outside to stall the work. The Commissioner was not present in the office. Party activists picketed the office of the Municipal Corporation at Kurnool also. Officers and staff were forcibly sent out to stall the work till noon. Earlier, party leaders and workers took out a rally from the children's park and stormed the corporation office. The activists picked up an argument with the police who objected to their entry to the office premises. The party State Committee member, Siddi Venkateswarlu, said the Congress Government was ignoring welfare of the poor. The Government should realise that people threw the TDP Government out of power for the same mistake. He said the CPI took up State-wide agitation to highlight the problems of the poor in urban areas. After conducting `samara bheri' for 10 days, the party organised picketing. He said basic issues like house site pattas, individual toilets, house tax, roads in the localities of the poor, pension for widows and old people were grossly neglected. Another State Committee member, P. Ramachandraiah, and the district secretary, P. Bhimlingappa, said the survey in Kurnool, Nandyal, Adoni and Yemmiganur revealed that the issues of the poor were not attended to.
300 activists held
KURNOOLANANTAPUR: About 300 CPI activists were arrested by the police here on Monday as they barged into the office of the Municipal Corporation after laying a siege to it for about three hours. The protest was in support of the agitating workers of the civic body and also demanding provision of basic amenities in the town. They were released later on personal surety. The party leaders -- K. Ramakrishna, C. Jaffer, Narayanaswamy and Ameenamma - asked the Government to provide basic amenities like drinking water, drainage, roads, house sites, houses, ration cards and self-employment schemes among others to the poor living in slums in the district headquarters. The protestors gatecrashed into the civic body office and some of them had even broken the objects like flowerpots. The police arrested them when they were trying to enter the office room of the Commissioner.
Bandh in Guntakal
Meanwhile, a bandh was observed in Guntakal town in response to a call given by the district unit of TDP demanding sufficient water supply to people there. Water in the summer storage tank would be exhausted in another 10 days but the ruling party had not chalked out any plan for supply of water, leaders said.
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