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Andhra Pradesh
By Our Special Correspondent
Talking to reporters here on Thursday, the secretary of the CPI(M) city committee, A. Ajay Sarma, recalled that the Chief Minister, during his visit on June 8, had promised to build houses under the Government scheme for slum people. ``Mr. Naidu also promised to build houses on half the land in case it was a private land and announced that it would also apply to lands belonging to Railways, Port and Government. He promised that none would be forcibly evicted,'', Mr. Sarma pointed out. Noting that the local MLA also made the same promises, he said that the CPI(M) was demanding only to keep the promises if the Government was really sincere in its efforts. "But the fact remains that even the scheme houses of the Government in Shramik Nagar of the 30th ward were razed to the ground with bulldozers and the residents were shifted to outskirts. Even women who opposed the eviction were lathicharged and cases foisted on them". Mr. Sarma said that another aspect, which gave room for suspicion about the Government's sincerity, was that a survey of slums was being done on Railway lands in the city while no such survey was undertaken in the case of its own lands belonging to the Revenue department and the Municipal Corporation.
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