APCC welcomes govt's decision to review Land Reforms Act

Hyderabad, Dec 17 (UNI) The Andhra Pradesh Congresss Committee (APCC) today welcomed the government's decision to review the implementation of AP Agricultural Land Reforms Act and the Assigned Land Act and the proposed Bill to plug loopholes in the Act.

Addressing a press conference after chairing an executive committee meeting here, PCC president K Keshava Rao said the entire party stood behind the Chief Minister and welcomed his gesture of surrendering 310 acres of land, which would be distributed to the poor people in the state.

He said the Andhra Pradesh was the first state in the country to have enacted the Land Reforms Laws in 1973, as part of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's national policy on 'Social Reforms and Social Engineering', which was a historic move as it targetted poverty and naxalism at one go.

He said the party in its meeting had decided to take land distribution to the poor people as a movement with a slogan 'Land to the Tiller', along with the government's 'Jalayagnam.' He said party workers and leaders would undertake mandal and village level surveys on government lands, assigned lands and unused lands and submit the details to the government for distribution to landless poor and Dalits in the state.

The executive committee discussed various issues, including the party's committment for the welfare of the poor. The Congress party would go with a theme and slogan of 'This land belongs to the poor people,' he added.

The PCC adopted a resolution hailing the Centre for passing a bill to provide 27 per cent reservation to the OBCs in central edicational institutions.

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