Chief Minister Oommen Chandy will hold talks with leaders of the
CPI(M)-led land struggle on Wednesday to find an amicable
solution to the stir.  With no immediate end to the agitation in
sight, CPI(M) activists began the second stage of the stir by
entering into ‘excess’ land identified by them, planted party
flags, and erected huts in about 150 places. The police did not
arrest any of the agitators and intervened only where there was
the possibility of the agitation taking a violent turn.
Although the agitation leaders held discussions with Revenue
Minister Adoor Prakash on Friday, there could not be complete
agreement on the agitators’ various demands. The land stir
leadership has expressed readiness to hold further talks with
both the Chief Minister and the Revenue Minister. If there could
be mutual agreement on the outstanding issue, the strike would
be called off, action council chairman E.P. Jayarajan and
convener A. Vijayaraghavan told a news conference here on
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