CPI State secretary K. Ramakrishna on Tuesday said a delegation of parliamentarians from New Delhi will visit the projects areas in the State this month-end to get a first-hand experience of the “apathy” being exhibited by the TDP regime towards the evacuees.
Addressing the media at the conclusion of the 30-hour hunger strike organised by the Left parties and people’s organisations, he said soon after the visit, the Left parties plan to take out a massive rally at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi to draw the attention of the Centre to the plight of lakhs of displaced families.
He said Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu was obsessed with accumulating huge chucks of lands and was planning to amass more than 10 lakh acres and form a land bank only to help the corporate sector.
Mr. Ramakrishna said the new capital, Amaravati, needed just 5,000 acres, but Mr. Naidu went ahead with a plan to acquire over 50,000 acres. “The Machilipatnam Port needs just 3,000 acres, but Mr. Naidu is aiming to acquire over 30,000 acres,” he pointed out.
He said the Left parties were not against projects, but were only keen on proper rehabilitation package for the evacuees.
YSRCP leader Perni Nani said families of 28 villages in Machilipatnam were living with trauma as their villages had come under the land acquisition notification from August 2015. “For the past 26 months, they have not been able to get bank loans, mortgage their holdings to buy tractors and get water. They are unable to perform marriages,” he said.
