The Hindu : Andhra Pradesh / Hyderabad News : Opposition parties stage separate protests at Collectorate

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Tuesday, Feb 06, 2007
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Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh - Hyderabad

Opposition parties stage separate protests at Collectorate

Special Correspondent

TDP, CPI (M), CPI blocked entrance denying staff entry into premises

MUFFLED VOICE: A wailing protester being taken away by policewomen near Ranga Reddy Collectorate in Hyderabad on Monday. — PHOTO: SATISH. H

HYDERABAD: It was a day of dharnas at the Rangareddy district Collectorate on Monday with three major opposition parties staging separate protests in support of their demands.

The Collectorate staff was denied entry into the premises as the slogan-shouting leaders and activists of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), the CPI (M) and the CPI blocked the entrance giving the police a tough time in controlling the traffic on the busy Lakdi-ka-pul road.

As part of their `Pedala Sankharavam', the TDP leaders staged a protest against the Government's indifference in releasing scholarships to Backward Classes (BC), Scheduled Caste (SC) or Scheduled Tribes (ST) students. The CPI activists wanted a check on spiralling prices while the CPI (M) staged a dharna against demolition of huts at Ramanthapur area in the city dislocating the residents.

Slogans raised

Senior TDP leader T. Devender Goud deplored the Government for its "anti-poor" policies that resulted in severe hardships to the poor students. The Congress that promised various measures for uplift of the BCs and the Dalits was, in fact, diverting funds meant for their welfare. Lamenting the "sorry state of affairs" in the welfare hostels, he demanded that the Government should come out with a white paper on the conditions in the hostels.

Leading a separate dharna as part of the State-wide agitation planned by his party, Aziz Pasha, CPI MP, demanded that the Central Government take steps to halt forward and futures trading that was leading to hoarding of essentials and increase in their prices.

The CPI (M) activists who raised slogans against the demolition of the hutments wanted the Government to distribute house site pattas to the poor.

The Government should initiate steps to reclaim the land in illegal possession of the rich and influential instead of targeting the poor, they said.

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