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CPI (M) land stir turns violent

Staff Reporter

Police foil party's bid to occupy land; 10 persons hurt

INHUMAN ACT: Communist Party of India (Marxist) district secretary D. Rama Devi being lifted into a police van in Guntur on Saturday. — Photo: T. Vijaya Kumar

GUNTUR: The agitation launched by Communist Party of India (Marxist) seeking possession of 185 acres of Wakf Board land at the Sarada Colony extension took a violent turn on Saturday.

At least 10 party activists, including the district unit president D. Rama Devi and city secretary K. Rami Reddy, were injured in the lathicharge and 16 activists were arrested. They were released later.

Trouble started when about 2,000 party workers and poor people descended on the plot in the wee hours of Saturday and began to perch party flags.

The police arrived at the scene after 7 a.m. With the situation threatening to spiral out of control, police began caning the protestors. Rasta roko staged

Tirupati Special Correspondent adds: For the seventh consecutive day, the land-struggle launched by the CPI(M) and the CPI continued here amid heavy jostling between the police and the demonstrators.

About 1,000 landless poor led by the party men staged a rasta roko here for house-sites and lands for tilling.

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