A Huge public meeting
was held in Khammam to mark the conclusion of the CPI (M)’s two-week long ‘Saagu Neeti
Sadhana Rythu Maha Padayatra’ on Saturday. CPI (M)
district leadership organised the 14-day Rythu Padayatra covering a
distance of over 300 km in the district to espouse the cause of
farmers. CPIM P B Member Com. Sitaram Yechury inaugurated the public meeting which was attended by Party central committee member T. Veerabhadram, district secretary P. Sudarshan and others.
If the scams involving loot of crores of rupees of public money was
curbed, all the pending irrigation projects in the country could be
completed and the surplus river waters tapped at an optimum level to
boost agricultural growth, said Comrade Yechuri while inaugurating the rally. “Dearth of funds” has
become an oft-repeated phrase for the persons at the helm of affairs
right from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Chief Minister N.Kiran Kumar
Reddy when it comes to completing irrigation projects, he said slamming
the Congress governments at the State and the Centre for offering lame
excuses in fulfilling the developmental aspirations of the people. On
one hand, the government was doling out subsidies worth crores of rupees
for big multinationals and on the other was withdrawing subsidies to
the poor people.
He lauded the
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