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Wall around Dalit lands partly demolished

Staff Reporter

CPI (M) members want total retrieval of property

Members of Communist Party of India (Marxist) staging a demonstration in front of the taluk office in Denkanikottai on Monday.

Denkanikottai: Over 100 members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) along with Dalit families in Vanamangalam village in Saragapalli panchayat, staged a demonstration in front of the taluk office in Denkanikottai on Monday, urging the district administration to demolish the wall built by a caste-Hindu around the lands belonging to the Dalits as well as a temple.

The district administration partly demolished the wall on Sunday. But the Ellamma temple, belonging to the Dalits, was yet to be retrieved, the CPI (M) party members alleged.

However, the party while thanking the administration for its prompt action appealed for retrieval of the temple soon.

The party alleged that the caste-Hindu had obtained the patta in his name for the land where the temple existed for many decades. He had also encroached upon 83 cents of poromboke land and three house sites given to the Dalits by the government by constructing a wall around it.

K.V. Munikrishnan, district committee member, presided over the demonstration. D.Ravindran, district secretary, spoke.

After the demonstration, the office-bearers met Sub-Collector Prashant M. Wadnere and urged him to do the needful. A release from the party later said that the Sub-Collector had assured them of appropriate action.

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