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Associates of PV diluting land reforms, says Narayana

For the poor: CPI State secretary K. Narayana and party legislator Chada Venkat Reddy participating in land struggle programme in Vangara village of Karimnagar district on Tuesday.

VANGARA (KARIMNAGAR Dt.): CPI State secretary K Narayana alleged that the close associates of former Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao were diluting the cause of land reforms by occupying the surplus lands given to the poor.

The CPI State secretary, along with CPI Floor Leader in the Assembly, Chada Venkat Reddy, district secretary M Venkat Swamy and others participated in the Bhoo Poratam in Vangara and Ramnagar villages of Bheemadevarapalli mandal on Tuesday by planting red flags and removing bushes in the lands belonging to Pingali Venkata Narayana Reddy, a close associate of PV.

Mr Narayana also visited the ancestral house of the former Prime Minister in Vangara village and also garlanded the portrait of Narasimha Rao and lauded his services for the landless poor by introducing land reforms. He also recollected that Rao had lost the Chief Minister’s post after introducing land reforms in the State.

He appealed to the Pingali family members to stay with the poor and fulfil the dreams of Narasimha Rao, who fought for land reforms. He found fault with the Pingali brothers for snatching the lands which were being cultivated by the poor since three decades.

Villagers said that Pingali Venkata Narayana Reddy had also donated his surplus lands along with P V Narasimha Rao after introduction of land reforms in Vangara and Ramnagar villages. Since then, the poor were cultivating the lands and also constructed houses. However, with the decline in the naxalite movement, abundant rainfall and the execution of SRSP flood flow canal, there was a sudden boom in the land price in the region. In order to cash in on the boom, some sons of Pingali Venkata Narayana Reddy started harassing the villagers to leave the lands donated by their father.

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