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CPI to resume stir for Dummugudem

Staff Reporter

KHAMMAM: The Communist Party of India will reach out to one lakh families with the party message as part of the preparations for its 20th national congress scheduled to be held in Hyderabad from March 23, according to K. Sambhasiva Rao, district secretary of the party. Addressing a news conference on Sunday, he said that the exercise was aimed at explained the objective of the party’s struggle on various issues to the people. The party would simultaneously take up fund-raising drive for construction of a new building for the party in the district.

He said that the party would resume its agitation on the Dummugudem project in the district as the government failed to take up work on the lift scheme even two years after laying the stone. He said the CPI, which fought for the project, forced the government to sanction Rs. 300 crores for it in the budget. But, the funds could not be utilised so far.

The government had sanctioned funds for the Dummugudem tail pond without spending a rupee on the lift scheme that was aimed at extending irrigation facility to over 2 lakh acres in the district. The CPI would oppose the tail pond canal by all means.

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