
Rasta rokos over podu farmers’ issue tomorrow
The Hindu
To press for grant of pattas to all podu farmers
The CPI (M), the CPI and the CPI (ML-New Democracy) and the organisations affiliated to them are all geared up to stage ‘sadak bandh’ (road blockade) at multiple locations along a length of 400-km of highways and rural roads in predominantly tribal areas spanning around 16 districts of the State over podu farmers’ issues on October 5.
The Podu Rythu Porata Committee, a State-level umbrella body of various political parties and farmers’ organisations, called for the sadak bandh to press for grant of pattas to all podu farmers as per the provisions of the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act 2006.
The committee has chalked out an action plan to organise a slew of rasta rokos at different locations on the highways/district and rural roads in two segments — Aswaraopet to Adilabad and Wanaparthy to Mattampally — from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Tuesday.