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Left parties for joint stir

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CPI (M), CPI to take up land distribution and other issues

HYDERABAD: After a long hiatus, the CPI (M) and the CPI will launch joint agitations to mount pressure on the government to solve major issues like land reforms and distribution.

To begin with, the two parties will organise seminars and meetings against the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal at State, district and mandal levels from July 18. This will be followed by resumption of land struggle jointly with more intensity sometime in the first week of August.

The two Left parties, which earlier conducted land struggles separately, decided to join forces to make the agitation more effective.

Statewide campaign

They will simultaneously organise protests against price rise and inflation and irregularities in Indiramma housing. An extended regional meeting of the CPI (M) that concluded here on Thursday decided to take to the path of agitation from July 15 with the launch of a Statewide campaign against the “anti-people” policies of the government.

The campaign will include dharnas, demonstrations and picketing of government offices in support of their demands. The CPI, on its part, had decided to take out ‘jathas’ against the coastal corridor project that is adversely affecting farmers from Tada in Nellore and Ichapuram in Srikakulam. These will culminate in a public meeting.

“We want to build up the momentum through a series of agitations that would be made more intense by the time the monsoon session of the Assembly commences,” CPI (M) State secretary B.V. Raghavulu said. He told The Hindu that the land struggle this time around would be intense in that the two parties would occupy the lands and not leave them till genuine beneficiaries were given pattas.

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