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Land struggle will be intensified: Karat

D. Chandra Bhaskar Rao

We will be with you even if you are put in jail, says the CPI(M) general secreatary

For the poor: CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat paying homage to those killed in the Mudigonda police firing after unveiling a memorial column on Tuesday. CPI State secretary K. Narayana is also seen.

MUDIGONDA (Khammam district): Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Prakash Karat said the Left parties’ land struggle would be intensified in the second phase beginning on Wednesday and continued till the Government conceded their demands.

“The land struggle is of national importance,” Mr. Karat said, while addressing a massive rally after unveiling the martyrs’ column built in memory of the seven persons killed in police firing here on July 28. “All of us from the national leadership will participate in the struggle,” he said. The CPI (M) leader said that even after the police firing, the Government continued to use force to suppress the land struggle and to evict the landless from lands occupied by them. Calling for a greater level of people’s participation in “Bhooporatam”, he said “even if the Government decides to put you in jail, we will be with you”.

Mr. Karat regretted that the State Government had not conceded the demand for an independent land commission and added that there was no change in its stand on the distribution of assignment lands. Observing that multinational companies were out to grab lands meant for the poor and landless, he said the Left parties wanted the Government to address the agrarian crisis that had resulted in the suicide of many farmers across the country.

CPI state Secretary K, Narayana said the land struggle in the State was a result of the Government’s failure to implement land reforms.

The struggle would continue until the land distribution programme was taken up by the Government. He said that over 35 lakh families could be given two acres of land each by distributing the available surplus lands. CPI (M) central committee member, Tammineni Veerabhadaram, CPI MLC, Puvvada Nageswara Rao, the CPI (M) district secretary, P. Sudharshan Rao were among those who spoke.

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