ELURU: The attempts by the sentiment-struck District Congress Committee (DCC) leadership to follow "Vaastu" in renovation of the century-old party office building at Agraharam in One Town here has landed the party top brass in a legal controversy.

Gudimella Rangamma and her son Venkata Sesha Sri Ramachandra residing on the eastern side of the Congress office served a legal notice on the DCC President Indukuri Ramakrishna Raju and DCC Vice-President and office incharge B.V. Raghavaiah Chowday for allegedly trying to encroach upon their site admeasuring 390 sq yards by dismantling their ancestral house on it. They also lodged a complaint in the One Town police on Friday seeking protection of their property .

According to Mr. Ramachandra, the party leaders got dismantled a portion of their compound wall on the North East and were currently engaging workers to cut a 50-year old neem tree over which his family reportedly got legal rights. Showing the documents relating to their house site, he said his grandfather Gudimella Ramachandracharyulu had received the land as gift from Motevari Zamindars in 1945 in recognition of the religious services he rendered to the zamindar family.

Jinxed office

Meanwhile, the Congress leaders claim that they were only trying to `redeem' the land belonging to the party office from the possession of unauthorised persons and effecting changes in the office building as per vaastu in the interest of the party. "Our party performed poorly in almost all the elections in the district for the last nine years since the North East of our office building is overburdened with structures and a big tree ," says Congress senior leader Puli Sriramulu.

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