CPI to launch stir in A.P. for house sites for poor, drought aid, resolution of 22-A land issues

CPI State secretary G. Eswaraiah speaking at a press conference in Vijayawada on Thursday. | Photo Credit: Giri KVS

The Communist Party of India (CPI) has announced a series of protest programmes on issues including house sites for the poor, drought relief and problems relating to 22-A prohibited lands, with a ‘Chalo Vijayawada’ programme scheduled for October 26.

Addressing a press conference here on Thursday, CPI State secretary G. Eswaraiah said the State committee had discussed public issues and political developments at its meeting in Kadapa from September 28 to 30 and decided to intensify public movements.

The CPI would demand a house site of two cents for the urban poor, and three cents for the rural poor, allotment of TIDCO houses and financial assistance for house construction, he said, alleging that several assurances made by Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu before the elections had not been implemented even after 26 months.