ACTION, PLEASE: CPI(M) leaders addressing party activists at the Collectorate on Wednesday.

KHAMMAM: The CPI (M) district unit laid siege to the Collectorate here on Wednesday as part of its 48-hour-long agitation demanding implementation of the Dummugudem lift scheme. Party workers and supporters in large numbers took part in the protest. They prevented officials from entering their offices. Traffic on the Wyra road was diverted.

CPI (M) workers cooked their food beneath trees and had their lunch on the roadside.

Addressing protesters, CPI (M) central committee member and Khammam MLA Thammineni Veerabhadram pointed out that the stone was laid for the project by Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy on December 31, 2005 yielding to the pressure mounted by the CPI (M).

Midium Babu Rao, Bhadrachalam MP, said that the irrigation projects planned by the government were aimed more at benefiting contractors instead of farmers.

To continue fight

He said the government which could not spend even a rupee on the Dummugudem project had allocated Rs. 2000 crores for the Polavaram project which was likely to spell doom for tribal communities in Bhadrachalam region. CPI(M) State committee member M. Subba Rao said that the fight would continue until the work on the project was launched.

Khammam DCCB Chairman, T.S. Prasad and CPI (M) leader Danala Kondaiah were among the host of leaders who took part. The Telugu Desam backed the protest.

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