SERIOUS MATTER: Round-table conference on `Bhoo poratam' in progress in Tirupati on Tuesday. — Photo: K.V. Poornachandra Kumar

TIRUPATI: The ongoing land-struggle by the Communist Part of India (Marxist) and the Communist Party of India on Tuesday received a shot in the arm with opposition parties, SC,ST and BC Associations and rural artisans pledging their support for the agitation.

At an all-party round-table meeting held here by the CPI(M) at its party office here, district leaders of the CPI, TDP, BJP and RPI endorsed the land stir being spearheaded by the Left parties.

The Left parties had symbolically identified Hyderabad and Tirupati as venues for their first phase of the agitation, which would be extended to the rest of the State in phases.

District CPI(M) secretary K. Murali, who presided over the session, said that the party had decided to go ahead with the agitation if necessary giving it a touch of `militancy' to sensitise the Government against the crying need of the landless for house sites and agricultural lands.

Leaders of all parties also lambasted the Congress Government for doing precious little in this regard in the last three years.

The meeting also condemned the lathi charge on the Left party activists and the agitationists at Tirupati on Sunday and asserted that they would not be cowed down by police action. Among the other participants were N. Raja Reddy (CPI), Narasimha Yadav (TDP), Subramanyam Reddy (BJP) and Anjaiah (RPI).

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