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Protest against move to raze hutments

Staff Reporter

Relay fast by residents of Rahul Gandhi Colony on Congress leaders are trying to grab the very land on which they had asked the poor to erect their huts four years ago, says CPI

AGONISED LOT: CPI(M) corporator M. Prasoona speaking at a relay fast camp in Anantapur on Thursday.

ANANTAPUR: The relay fast taken up by residents of Rahul Gandhi colony in Kakkalapalli gram panchayat on the outskirts of district headquarters protesting against the efforts to raze their hutments by officials entered third day on Thursday. The protest is being held in front of the MRO's office here.

Town units of the CPI(M), the CPI and the TDP expressed solidarity with the protesters and warned officials against efforts to remove the hutments in which 270 poor families, who had migrated to the town in search of livelihood, had been staying for the last four years

Promise broken

Telugu Desam town president K. Adinarayana alleged that the Congress had promised house sites to shelter less poor before the last Assembly elections. But, the party was bent upon breaking the promise now. Congress leaders were grabbing lands all over and were not even sparing the house sites of the poor, he charged.

Lingamaiah, Chiranjeevamma and Shaikshavali, CPI leaders, said that it was Congress leaders, who had asked the poor families to erect their huts on the land four years ago, were now trying to grab the land which actually belonged to a freedom fighter. The CPI would not tolerate removal of the hutments and would go all-out to to protect them from being razed on or after October 4. Its leaders suggested staging a dharna in front of the local legislator's house as it was the younger brother of B. Narayana Reddy, MLA, who had told the poor to settle down there.

CPI(M) leadersdemanded alternative house sites for the families.

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