The CPI(M), along with like-minded opposition parties and Dalit organisations, will step up the agitation in support of the displaced Dalits of Devarapalli, party’s Prakasam district secretary P. Anjaneyulu has said.
CPI(M) Polit Bureau member B.V. Raghavulu would join the agitation seeking justice for the Dalits on July 29, Mr. Anjeyulu told the media here on Thursday.
The party would mobilise funds for the Dalits to wage a legal battle to retrieve the 22 acres of land the 40 Dalit families had been cultivating for decades, he said.
A solidarity committee would be constituted by roping in representatives of political parties and civil society organisations sympathetic to the Dalits’ cause to take forward the struggle for retrieving the land.
Opposition parties and civil society organisations would chalk out a State-wide agitation programme at a meeting in Vijayawada on July 30, he said. Over 300 acres of land had been occupied by influential persons in the village, he contended. It was unfortunate that the government targeted only the lands given to the Dalits.
