Padu secretary N. Venakteswarlu said the Dalits, be it in Yenikapadu or Devarapalli or Posulapadu, were being displaced under one pretext or the other. Taking up cudgels for the Dalits, CPI(M)-led Andhra Pradesh Agricultural Workers’ Union S.N. The union would bring together all the aggrieved Dalits for a protracted land struggle, he added. Pouring out their woes, the Dalits said they had developed the land over a period of time with small savings and raising private loans. “With a majority of farmers switching to social forestry plantations, we don’t get work in the farms of landlords of late,” added another Dalit L. Srinivasa Rao.
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