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Chengara supporters call for end to hostilities

Staff Reporter

KOTTAYAM: The Chengara Agitation Solidarity Committee has called for an immediate end to hostilities towards the agitators at Chengara, perpetrated under the guise of the Joint Trade Union.

Speaking to mediapersons here on Saturday, leaders of the committee alleged that the Communist Party of India (Marxist) was behind the present incidents of violence at Chengara.

Sunny M. Kapikkad, leader of the committee, alleged that the activists of the trade union, under protection from the CPI(M), were engaged in “goonda activities.”

As the 7,500 families had been under siege from August 3 onwards, they were facing acute shortage of food and provisions.

Many had taken ill but were not able to move out for medical help, he said.

The committee leaders alleged that CPI(M) was trying to upset democratic norms and established agitation modes and was trying to replicate the “Nandigram model” at Chengara.

Various human rights groups, cultural leaders and Dalit leaders would visit Chengara on the eve of Independence Day. The future course of action will be decided at the conclave being planned there on August 14 afternoon, they said.

K.K. Kochu, C.B. Ramanan, V.D. Jose and others were also present at the press conference.

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