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The recent
Janmabhoomi started by the World Bank-stooge Chandrababu Naidu is facing
resistance from the people through out AP. The increased price of essential
commodities and the recent hike in power tariff resulted in people taking up
more militant demonstrations all over the state. This was recently witnessed in
Nizamabad district. The Janmabhoomi nodal team of Domakonda mandal of Nizamabad
district (North Telanagana) started in vehicles for Sangameshwar village to
conduct a gram sabha as part of this fake Janmabhoomi programme on the 5th of
August. As soon as the vehicles entered the village and went to the gram
panchayat office, people gathered in large numbers, stopped the vehicles and
asked why they had not solved the problems raised during the past gram sabhas.
The nodal officer tried to hail the Janmabhoomi programme. The irate villagers
raised slogans and prevented the team from getting down from the vehicle and
threw cow dung at the vehicle and showed broomsticks to the nodal team. They
protested against severe power cuts, the unprecedented power tariff hike and the
drinking water crisis confronting the village. They gheraoed the nodal team and
did not budge when the officials pleaded that the gram sabha should be
conducted. The nodal team then, threateningly tried to hold gram sabha.
Then the situation
took a dramatic turn as the villagers tried to drag the nodal officer out of the
jeep. The officials were assaulted in the melee. The Domakonda SI, who was
there, rushed to their rescue, only to be pushed down to the ground and beaten
up severely by the villagers. The people even applied cow dung on his face. The
villagers then announced their decision to boycott the gram sabha and asked the
nodal team to leave the place. The humiliated nodal officials went back to the
mandal headquarters and lodged a complaint with the police. The police swooped
down on the village, the next day and arrested 16 persons and took them away to
Domakonda police station. Again more than 200 people of Sangameshwar village
gathered and organised a rasta roko at Domakonda mandal headquarters and staged
a dharna in front of the police station demanding the release of the arrested.
Fearing the people’s resistance the police produced all the arrested people in
court.
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