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PDP expresses solidarity with Chengara stir

Staff Reporter

Maudany visits encroached estate, warns of State-wide agitation

PATHANAMTHITTA: People’s Democratic Front leader Abdul Nasir Maudany, said the front would launch an agitation from Kasaragod to Thiruvananthapuram, if the government failed to settle the 11-month-old “land struggle launched by landless people” at Chengara near Konni in a time-bound manner.

The PDP leader was addressing a meeting on Friday at the Kumbazha Estate of Harrisons Malayalam Limited at Chengara, extending solidarity with the Sadhu Jana Vimochana Samyukta Vedi (SJVSV) workers who had encroached upon the estate 11 months ago.

Maudany, accompanied by the party’s working chairman Poonthura Siraj and SJVSV president Laha Gopalan, reached the rubber estate, braving the heavy downpour, by 5 p.m.

Hundreds of Vedi activists assembled at the meeting venue to hear the PDP leader who extended full support to their “land struggle till it became a success.”

Discussions planned

He said he would hold discussions with the Vedi leaders on Friday and Saturday and meet Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan and other ministers on Sunday to apprise them of the situation there and the need to settle it at the earliest.

He added that the Chengara agitation was a historic one and there was no parallel to it in the country.

He said PDP has always been keen in taking up the problems of the oppressed sections of society.

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