TAMIL NADU - Left parties to meet in Chennai on October 7

N. Varadarajan, State Secretary, Communist Party of India (Marxist),

speaking at a demonstration, near Rajagopal Goundar Park,
in Dharmapuri on Tuesday
urging the government to issue pattas to Dalits living at Sengodipuram.

DHARMAPURI: Left parties in the State have convened a special conference in Chennai on October 7 to discuss spiralling rise in the prices of essential commodities in the country, N. Varadarajan, State Secretary, Communist Party of India (Marxist), said here on Tuesday.

Mr. Varadarajan said the CPI (M) condemned the Dharmapuri Municipality’s indifferent attitude towards the 55 Dalit families living in Sengodipuram.

He said the resolution adopted by the municipality was against the interest of the Dalits. If the Dalits in Sengodipuram were denied pattas, the party would organise a State-wide agitation, Mr. Varadarajan said.

He alleged that the government over the years had given pattas for those living on the 4.25-acre land and was denying pattas to the Dalits living on 56 cents in Sengodipuram for over six decades.

Brinda Karat issue

When the situation in Uthapuram was peaceful, why did the Thiruparankundram police stop the party’s national leader Brinda Karat and take her to the police station, he asked. The government should not have handled the issue in this manner, he said.

(The Hindu)