The revenue, municipal and police came with bulldozers and destroyed the huts of the sleeping poor. The CPI office was razed to the ground.
- Demolition of Huts in Gundla Singaram of Hanumakonda District
- 30 CPI leaders and activists arrested
- Recover lands occupied by squatters
- CPI State Secretary, MLA Koonanneni Sambasivarao
Hassanparti, June 20: The revenue, municipal and police came with bulldozers and destroyed the sleeping huts of the poor. The CPI office was razed to the ground. If we go into the details… the poor have been living in huts since five years in Gundlasingaram near Liquor Plant under Greater 2 Division of Hanumakonda District. At 4 o’clock in the morning on Saturday, 200 policemen along with revenue and municipal officials came with bulldozers and demolished the huts and the CPI office inside. CPI leaders arrested 30 people and took them to KU police station. With restrictions.. Holding children in red tenta and starving the hut dwellers without drinking water.
Women were seriously injured in this incident. The poor people’s hearts were broken when the huts they had built after saving a penny were being demolished before their eyes. The loss was up to Rs.2 crores. CPI State Secretary, Kothagudam MLA Koonanneni Sambasivarao, who was aware of the matter, visited Gundlasingaram and met the hut dwellers and assured them. Speaking on this occasion, he lashed out at the government for recovering the lands occupied by the land grabbers and demolishing the huts built by the poor. Hanumakonda and Warangal government wants to collapse, he asked. He flagged that the government is conspiring to hand over the lands of the poor to the rich. They demanded that the government should grant house titles to the shanty dwellers demolished by Indiramma. Otherwise, they warned that they will move across the state.
