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CPI calls for voluntary surrender of assigned lands

Special Correspondent

`If not reclaimed the party will distribute the land to poor'

K. Narayana

HYDERABAD: The State unit of Communist Party of India has demanded that all those who are in possession of assigned lands should voluntarily surrender them to the Government within three months.

Addressing a press conference here on Saturday, CPI State Council Secretary K. Narayana said that in view of the proposed ordinance to reclaim assigned lands, those is possession of them should heed the Government's advice or face prosecution.

The State Government should come out with a white paper on the extent of assigned and other Government lands in illegal possession.

He served an ultimatum to the Government that if the assigned lands in illegal possession were not reclaimed, the CPI would occupy them and distribute them to the poor.

He cautioned the CLP members to observe restraint and derided the CLP leaders' campaign bracketing the Left with other Opposition parties of having occupied assigned lands.

Suspect clause

A clause in the proposed ordinance that the assigned lands could be used for other purposes would water down the legislation, he said, and expressed fears that the lands would go to the rich and influential.

To a question, he said the CPI was not demanding the resignation of the Chief Minister in wake of the land issue.

He urged the Government to take suitable decision to free life convicts languishing in the jails for many years.

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