No special law is needed in the Employment Guarantee Act, the old law is sufficient: CPM V. Srini...

Door-to-door awareness campaign from January 18: V. Srinivasa Rao CPM State Secretary V. Srinivasa Rao announced that the party will resume door-to-door awareness campaign from January 18. Speaking to the media on Friday, Srinivasa Rao said…. They are specifically saying that 100 days have been made into 150 days in the case of the Employment Guarantee Act. But he said that there is no need to bring a special law to make 100 days into 150 days. He said that it is not enough to make the old law 150 days. He said that the Left parties along with the laborers have demanded that the Employment Guarantee Act be made into 200 days and a minimum wage of Rs. 600 be given. However, in practice today, there is not even 50 days. He said that if a minimum wage is decided, even Rs. 250 is not being received. He said that instead of developing it, there is a conspiracy to destroy it all and change the law and lift the scheme. In opposition to this, the CPM announced that it would undertake a door-to-door awareness campaign from January 18 to 31 through rallies. It said that pamphlets would be given to every house, telling them the facts, collecting signatures and giving them Mahajars to the officials. It was emphasized that all the Left parties were preparing to launch a national-level movement if the government did not respond and did not restore the old law. It appealed to the agricultural laborers, poor farmers, artisans and the majority of the poor people in rural areas to recognize these facts and make the door-to-door campaign to be undertaken by the CPM a success. It was requested that agricultural laborers' associations and employment associations should come together and hold meetings in villages and sensitize everyone. It was also called upon the people to burn the new law that is destroying the Employment Guarantee Act in bonfires on the 14th day of the Bhogi festival. Speaking on the issue of land acquisition, V. Srinivasa Rao said that large-scale forced land acquisition is taking place across the state. To justify this land acquisition, Telugu Desam leaders, especially Minister Lokesh, are saying that… we will give it to you for 99 paise, what is your problem?… He reminded that Lokesh had once said in the past… that no land was given to anyone for free, and that he had told who and how many crores of rupees were given to whom, along with the figures. He said that no land was given to anyone for free, that it was given at market rate… and now they are saying that they will give land for 99 paise, he said. “Whose property is this? Who will they give 99 paise to? What right does Lokesh have?” he questioned. He clarified that this is the property of the people, the money of the people, the lands of the people. Will they forcibly take away the agricultural lands that are ploughed and cultivated from the farmers and give 99 paise to the corporates? He said that instead of cooperating with the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant, Arcel Mittal was set up next to it, and Gangavaram Port was given to Adani. He said that there is no Visakhapatnam Steel Plant and they do not have mines. He said that now the NITI Aayog has also prepared a big report called Visakhapatnam Regional Development. He accused them of being peddling it. He said that the report clearly states that 2500 acres belonging to the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant should be turned over to private parties to set up industries in Nakkapalli. He said that they are peddling it. He said that they are peddling it. He said that they are misleading the people by saying that they are not taking the steel plant. If the report clearly states that 800 billion dollars are coming in on paper, and that 2500 acres of Visakha Steel Plant should be diverted to private parties to set up industries in Nakkapalli, then they should reject the report and throw it in the trash. If they do, they should tell the facts. V. Srinivasa Rao warned that the workers should not cheat the people of the state. He said that the government will not take shares, that they will take public money and spend it on private companies, and that they will not have any money if they have to give it to the people. If Minister Lokesh said that the lands will be given as per their wishes, he said that party member Appala Raju was taken and detained for obstructing it. He said that there is no case.. He has not been brought before the court. In the end, he said that he is not allowed to meet anyone. He said that he has been made irrelevant to the people. The court ordered the state government to file an affidavit within a month, and no matter how you look at it, the PD Act will not be applied in even a single percent of the cases filed against Appala Raju, which is completely illegal. V. Srinivasa Rao questioned how many people are detained in this way, how many illegal cases are filed, how many people are threatened and their lands are snatched. Yesterday, Minister Lokesh said that… CPM said that someone is readin...