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CPI: make housing a fundamental right

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Raja supports land-grab campaign in Chowdavaram

— Photo: T. Vijaya Kumar

For the Poor: Communist Party of India leader D. Raja interacting with people at Chowdavaram in Guntur district on Saturday.

GUNTUR: Communist Party of India leader D. Raja has suggested housing be made fundamental right to provide a shelter for every citizen of this country and supported the forcible occupation of some land in Chowdavaram in Guntur district by the poor.

Visiting the huts of people at Chowdavaram near here on Saturday morning, the Communist leader took strong objection to the State and Central Governments not meeting the basic needs of a human being guaranteed under the Constitution of India -- Right to Education, Right to Health and Right to Housing. This fight for achieving the right to housing has begun in a small way and would expand in the days to come in other geographical regions/states also, he said.

“This fight for housing will not end here, our party will ensure people occupying the lands would be provided legal pattas and all basic amenities like water, sanitation and power,” he said addressing a large gathering. The UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy should be ashamed of their inability to provide basic food security and housing to the people of the country. Appealing to the people to stand by the Red Flag and Communist Party of India in the days to come, he said that party would make all efforts to get basic amenities immediately. He made a mockery of the working of the Indian Railways by saying his arrival at Guntur got delayed by four hours as the train got delayed.

A party that fought for the Independence of the country will fight for the rights of the people and if the police try to toe the line of the Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy Government and displace the people from these lands, the party would fight to the end, he said.

The District CPI secretary Muppalla Nageswara Rao and Ciy CPI secretary Jangala Ajay Kumar were also present on the occasion.

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