Polepally: The Special Election Zone (The Hindu, 25-5-08)

- By Sainath

It’s a simple strategy of protest with no pretensions of winning. The aim of the Polepally Protesters : “That we get our lands back, our lives back. Our one and only demand.”

COMMON APPEAL: “Voting for the Jadcherla 13 means saluting with love our Mother Earth.”

          There are as many as 13 of them contesting the same Jadcherla Assembly seat as independents. Only, they’re not contesting against, but for, each other. Their symbols range from a Whistle and a Gas Cylinder to Bangles and a bunch of Bananas.

SEZ displaced cup of woes overflows

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Land from Polepally, Mudireddypally villages assigned to SEZ
Rs. 18,000 an acre for assigned lands too less for livelihood.

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Nowhere to go: Widows of Polepally village whose lands have been acquired pour out their woes at a meeting in Hyderabad on Sunday.

HYDERABAD: “We have lost dignity along with livelihood. Not a sliver of land is left even to bury us after death. We fear nothing now as we stand to lose nothing,” Sukkamma, a woman from Polepally village of Mahbubnagar district says fuming with rage.