KADAPA: A delegation of the city unit of Congress would complain to Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy and Governor Rameswar Thakur on landgrabbing by TDP leaders on October 28, Mayor P. Ravindranath Reddy said on Tuesday.

Similar complaints would be lodged with President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on lands allegedly encroached upon by Rajya Sabha member C. Ramachandraiah, the Mayor said at a press conference here.

The city Congress would organise rasta roko agitations on highways around Kadapa on November 2. Relay hunger strikes would be launched on November 3 and a public meeting would be organised at Kalakshetram on November 7, he said.

The phased agitation included Kadapa bandh on November 8, the Mayor said. The protests would be called off if Mr. Ramachandraiah and TDP Polit Bureau member K. Sivananda Reddy surrendered the lands to the Government, he said.

The other side

Mr. Ramachandraiah admitted that land purchased by his father at Joukulapalle village was regularised during TDP rule,

Andhra Pradesh Forest Development Corporation chairman Shaik Hussain said. Government lands were meant for allotment to people below poverty line and landless poor, SCs, STs and BCs, whose annual income was below Rs. 11,000, he said.

Referring to Mr. Sivananda Reddy's assertion that he purchased 92 acres from former chief secretary K. Jayabharat Reddy's family, he said acquiring lands allotted to Kadapa Koti Reddy and Ramasubbamma, both freedom fighters, was illegal.

Ex-servicemen alone were empowered to sell Government land allotted to them, he said.

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