The CPI (M) Bhadrachalam town committee on Saturday launched a two-day hunger strike in the temple town to press for its charter of demands including extension of karakatta (flood bank) along the Godavari river on a war-footing and release of ₹1,000 crore as announced by Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao to implement an action plan to protect Bhdrachalam from the recurring menace of floods.
The main demands include demerger of the five gram panchayats (GPs) in Andhra Pradesh situated in the vicinity of Bhadrachalam with Telangana’s Bhadrachalam division, constitution of an expert committee on the backwaters effects of the Polavaram project, under construction in Andhra Pradesh, on Bhadrachalam.
Leaders of various Opposition parties, including the Congress, CPI and TDP, and also a clutch of mass organisations extended their support to the CPI (M)’s relay fast.
