VISAKHAPATNAM: The way the fishermen of Gangavaram were being terrorised to accept the terms of the Government reminded one of the manner in which the British tried to suppress the freedom struggle, alleged the State vice-president of All-India Democratic Women's Association B. Hymavathi here on Thursday.

Some 400 policemen were posted at the village and through them the Government was forcing local people to accept its formula when it should have done the same through negotiations, she said.

Team visits jail

The AIDWA team visited persons arrested in connection with the Gangavaram incidents at the Central Jail and interacted with villagers, particularly women, at Gangavaram. Those in jail were worried about their children while the fisherwomen in Gangavaram were still in a state of fear, Ms. Hymavathi said.

Action condemned

Leader of CPI Legislature Party Chada Venkata Reddy criticised the Government for trying to suppress the Gangavaram agitation through dictatorial methods.

He, along with the party's State secretariat member T. Lakshminarayana and city secretary Ch. Raghavendra Rao, called on the CPI district secretary J.V. Satyanarayana Murthy, CPI (M) district secretary Ch. Narasinga Rao, other leaders of Left parties and trade unions, fishermen forum and people's organisations at the Central Jail on Thursday morning.

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