The CPI (M) Khammam district committee will organise a ‘chalo
Hyderabad’ programme on March 16 to mount pressure on the State
government allocate Rs 10,000 crore in the ensuing State budget for
speedy completion of all the pending irrigation projects in the
district. The party had earlier organised a 14-day long “Saagu Neeti
Sadhana Maha Padayatra” involving 1000 party cadres in the district in
October last year to press the demand.
Talking to
mediapersons on Tuesday, CPI (M) district committee secretary P
Sudarshan Rao, said the ‘Chalo Hyderabad’ programme had been planned to
mount pressure on the government to earmark Rs 10,000 crore in the State
budget for completing the irrigation projects including the Rajiv Sagar
(Dummugudem) and Indira Sagar (Rudramkota) lift irrigation schemes. The
present regime headed by Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy had
finalised the tenders for Polavarm project in the dead of the night in a
hasty manner, he alleged lamenting that the government was turning a
blind eye towards execution of several long-pending and need-based
irrigation projects such as Rajiv Sagar. The unabated suicides by the
farmers were a clear pointer to the gravity of the irrigation woes of
the peasants, he said stressing the need for expeditious completion of
the irrigation projects in the district to find a lasting solution to
the multitude of problems confronted by the farmers.
The
party would stage a demonstration at the dharna chowk in the State
capital on Saturday in pursuit of the demand. CPI (M) State secretary B V
Raghavulu, central committee member T Veerabhadram, party floor leader
in the Assembly J Ranga Reddy and a host of other senior party leaders
besides the participants of the last year’s “Maha Padayatra” would take
part in the dharna.
(Source : The Hindu)
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