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“Don’t take law into hands”

Special Correspondent

Chief Minister asks Left parties to observe restraint in the ongoing land struggle

HYDERABAD: Reiterating the Government’s commitment to distribute houses and house-sites to the eligible poor, Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy on Monday asked the Left parties to observe restraint in their ongoing land struggle.

Appropriate action

The Government had no objection if the Left parties conduct their struggle peacefully, but appropriate action would be initiated in cases where the parties take law into their lands, he said. Dr. Reddy denied having asked officials to “curb the Left agitation with iron hand.”

Dr. Reddy is learnt to have made the remarks when a delegation of the Left parties’ leaders met him at the camp office on Monday and brought to his notice the “repression unleashed by police”. The delegation comprised among others CPI (M) State secretariat member Y. Venkateswara Rao, his CPI counterpart K. Ramakrishna and Agriculture Labour Union general secretary B. Venkat.

When the delegation complained about the numerous arrests and frequent lathicharge on the agitators, he said the Government had not instructed the police to quell the agitators. It was only when the protestors exceeded their limit the police had to act.

Dr. Reddy is understood to have assured that he would look into the matter and take remedial steps wherever necessary.

He informed the Left leaders that the Government would shortly release CDs containing information about the beneficiaries of Indiramma scheme.

The Left parties could go through the lists and bring to the notice of the Government those left out from the scheme and it was prepared to include them in the subsequent phases, he added.

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