Hyderabad, Sept.22 (Hydnow): Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) President A. Revanth Reddy gave a call for ‘Aakhri Poratam’ (last struggle) to achieve a Telangana which guarantees transparency, social justice and self-rule.
He was addressing the Maha Dharna at Dharna Chowk, Indira Park jointly organized by all opposition parties on Wednesday to protest against the rising inflation, Podu lands issue and anti-people policies of TRS Govt in Telangana and BJP Govt at the Centre. Eminent leaders and thousands of activists belonging to Congress, CPI, CPI (M), TDP, TJS, CPI-ML, Inti Party and New Democracy participated in the dharna.
Revanth Reddy, who began his speech with a Lal Salaam, said that the scene at Dharna Chowk resembled the agitations held to achieve statehood for Telangana. He said although the geographical Telangana has been achieved, the people of Telangana did not get social justice and self-rule. He alleged that the TRS Government was preventing the Tribals from exercising their right to cultivation on Podu lands. He said Tribals were cultivating the Podu lands for decades. Following public movements by the Left and other parties, the then Congress-led UPA Government introduced the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 to grant cultivation rights to the tribals. However, the TRS Government was canceling those Pattas and such lands were illegally being acquired in the name of Haritha Haram or projects like Mallanna Sagar or Pharma City.
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The TPCC Chief alleged that the TRS Government was harassing those who are doing cultivation on Podu lands. He said that the atrocities by TRS Govt have crossed all the limits and Tribals were being implicated in falses cases. (Hydnow)
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