People's Democracy

ANDHRA PRADESH

Reception Committee Formed For AIKS National Conference

TO make success the AIKS national conference to be held in Guntur of Andhra Pradesh in January 2010, a reception committee was formed on July 1, 2009. On this occasion there was a preparatory meeting in which AIKS general secretary K Varadarajan participated. The meeting was in coincidence with the third death anniversary of Kisan Sabha leader and former member of Polit Bureau of CPI(M) Comrade Koratala Satyanarayana. Speaking on the occasion, Varadarajan distinguished between co-operative agriculture and corporatisation of agriculture. He alerted the farming community that the governments in different states including that of Andhra Pradesh are advancing corporatisation of agriculture in the name of cooperative agriculture. He was against the possible evictions of farmers from the land to facilitate the corporatisation of agriculture. AIKS all India vice president S Malla Reddy presided over the meeting.

On this occasion, Kisan Movement in Andhra Pradesh penned by S Malla Reddy was released. In this book, Malla Reddy described the prominent agrarian movements led by Kisan Sabha. The book was dedicated to the memory of Comrade Koratala. Another book by agricultural scientist, Professor N Venugopal, Can�t we extend cooperation to Agriculture in Crisis  was also released.

A 200 member reception committee was formed with people from all walks of life. Nuziveedu Seeds Limited MD and Acharya N G Ranga Agricultural University (ANGRAU) board of director M Prabhakara Rao is the honorary president of the reception committee. Prominent agricultural scientist Professor N Venugopal is the president and AIKS Guntur district secretary P Narasimha Rao is the general secretary of the reception committee. ANGRAU director Satyanarayana Reddy, Dr Bommidala Krishna Murty, M Lakshamaiah are the honorary advisors. Tulasi Ramachandra Prabu is the  honorary secretary and K S Lakshman Rao, member of the AP legislative council is the vice president. Ministers of state government representing Guntur - D M Varaprasad, minister for education, K Lakshminarayana, minister for industries, Dada Venkat Reddy, minister for endowment, M Venkataraman, minister for technical education, member of parliament R Sambasiva Rao, M Venugopal Reddy and Panabaka Lakshmi, representatives of education institutions, mass organisations, agric based industrial associations and prominent individuals are the members of the reception committee.