MLC ask Dalits not to participate in land movement

Hyderabad, Aug 3 (UNI) Terming the Communists and the TDP as two sides of the same coin, Mala Mahanadu leader and member of Andhra Pradesh Legislative Council Jupudi Prabhakara Rao today called upon Dalits not to participate in the movement for house sites launched by these parties and sacrifice their lives.

In a statement here, he said of the seven persons killed in the police firing in Mudigonda village of Khammam district in the land movement, five were Dalits.

Charging the Communists with trying to play with the lives of Dalits for their own selfish ends, he questioned why no people from the forward community were dying in any movement launched by the Leftists.

Alleging ''the flags of Communists will not flutter without the help of Dalits'', the Mala leader claimed ''they (left parties) were using the poor Dalits as scapegoats.

Stating that TDP supremo N Chandrababu Naidu, who did not distribute a single 'yard' of land to the poor during his rule, was now shedding 'crocodile' tears and launching land movement to gain political mileage.

It was Mr Naidu, who engineered a split between Malas and Madigas, two important sections of Dalits, he alleged.

Accusing the Communists of distancing the Dalits from the principles of Dr B R Ambedkar and keeping them under the illusion of Communism, Mr Rao called upon the Dalits to follow only the footsteps of Dr Ambedkar and stay away from the politics of parties of upper caste leaders.

UNI