CPI(M) stages protest seeking house sites, pattas in Mangalagiri

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Tuesday staged a protest at the Mangalagiri-Tadepalli Municipal Corporation office, demanding allotment of house sites and house pattas to poor families in the Mangalagiri Assembly constituency.

The protesters gathered at the main gate of the corporation office with applications seeking house sites and pattas. Tension prevailed for over half an hour after the police prevented them from entering the office. A brief altercation reportedly took place when some protesters pushed open the gate. They later staged a sit-in at the gate.

Addressing the gathering, CPI(M) State secretariat member Ch. Babu Rao alleged that the government was showing greater urgency in providing land and other facilities to corporate companies while delaying the allotment of house sites to the poor.