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Protesters evicted from State land

Staff Reporter

CPI (M)-led struggle spreads to other parts of twin cities

RESOLUTE LOT: Hutment dwellers putting up a stiff resistance as policemen try to evict them from the occupied Government lands at Church Colony near Ramanthapur on Thursday. — PHOTO: P. V. Sivakumar

HYDERABAD: The struggle for land agitation led by the CPI (M) continued to spread to other parts of the twin cities on Thursday with hundreds of poor occupying nine acres of Government land at the hilly terrains of Mahendra Hills.

Nearly thousand people, mostly women, made a beeline to Mahendra Hills from wee hours of Thursday and amidst slogans, they began pitching poles demarcating the area for erecting huts, as a strong contingent of police watched.

Impossible dream

Homeless people from Addagutta, Chilkalguda, Tukaramgate, Mahendra Hills and Musheerabad formed the largest chunk of protestors. "Our income does not exceed Rs. 5,000 per month and it is impossible for us to get a house.

The Government is not doing enough to provide us with shelter," said Fatima Bibi, another resident from Chilkalguda.

Meanwhile, on Thursday afternoon, the police removed over 1,000 protestors who occupied about 20 acres of Government land at Ramanthapur.

They arrested six persons during the process.

Local CPI (M) leaders, along with 500 of their supporters, staged dharna for over an hour in front of Uppal police station protesting against the arrest of six of their members.

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