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CPI(M) shoots off letter to Sonia on ryots' death

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Counters Congress claim on the death attributed to party's land stir in Krishna district

HYDERABAD: The State CPI(M) on Friday shot off a letter with proof to AICC president Sonia Gandhi, countering the attempt being made by the Congress to attribute the death of two farmers in Krishna district to the party's land struggle.

Responding to query raised by Ms. Gandhi, during a meeting with CPI(M) MP Brinda Karat on Thursday, party Krishna district secretary V. Umamaheswara Rao asserted that the party had not occupied the lands belonging to the deceased and decried the false propaganda launched by the Congress through so-called fact finding committee. The letter appended with documents was sent to Ms. Gandhi by V. Srinivasa Rao, member of CPI (M)'s Central Secretariat.

Mr. Umamaheswara Rao said the piece of land occupied by the party workers in Mylavaram village did not belong to N. Chitti Babu who died of heart stroke. It was actually land declared surplus under Land Ceiling Act in 1974 which along other similar pieces was distributed to 11 landless people in the presence of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. But in 1995, local landlords in connivance with officials ousted these families. A struggle was on since then and on the request of the CPI (M), the Mylavram Tahsildhar issued a certificate on March 29, 2007 stating the names of the owners. Chitti Babu's name was not there in this list.

Similarly, the death of another farmer, Bommareddy Koteswara Reddy in the same village was not connected to land struggle. The land occupied by people under the party's leadership was in a different survey number and not as mentioned by the Congress in its fact finding report.

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