The All India Kisan Mahasabha has taken the Addasaram land grab and digital signature forgery issue to the Chief Commissioner of Land Administration, Government of Andhra Pradesh, demanding urgent action to protect tribal, Dalit, Bahujan and poor farmers.
On 18 May 2026, Com. D. Harinath, National Secretary of AIKM, submitted a representation to the CCLA office regarding the ongoing satyagraha by farmers in front of the Rolugunta Mandal Revenue Office in Anakapalli district.
In the representation, Com. Harinath stated that the restoration of Khata No. 559, the concerned land revenue account of K. Addasaram village, by the present Tahsildar on 6 April 2026 was illegal. He pointed out that this khata had already been cancelled in 2018 by the then Revenue Divisional Officer, Narsipatnam, after it was found to be unlawful. A copy of the 2018 RDO order was also submitted.
The issue concerns around 33 acres of land in Addasaram village, which has been cultivated for six to seven decades by nearly 40 families from Addasaram and around 15 families from nearby Konthalam village. These families, belonging to SC, ST, BC and other poor farming communities, have been cultivating lands in survey numbers 79-1, 79-11, 79-12B, 79-15, 82-14B, 83 and 84.
The land originally belonged to Duvvuri Venkata Chalamayya, and the last legal heir was his granddaughter, Duvvuri Suryaprakasham. Farmers stated that they had been paying lease rent for decades and were recognised as tenant farmers and enjoyers of the land. After 1995, they lost contact with Suryaprakasham, who was unmarried and had no children.
Taking advantage of this, land records relating to 33.64 acres were tampered with. The names of tenant farmers were removed from the “enjoyer” column, and the name of Rayavarapu Chandrasekhar Rao was entered in both the “owner” and “enjoyer” columns through collusion with revenue officials and computer operators.
The matter had already come before the administration in 2018, when the then Joint Collector G. Srijana personally attended a gram sabha in Addasaram village to assess the land grabbing issue. Local representatives, including the sarpanch and MPTC, supported the farmers’ claims.
AIKM said forged documents were created using fabricated signatures of officials and forged government office seals to grab the lands of late Suryaprakasham. The organisation said this is not a simple revenue dispute, but a serious case of land grabbing, forgery, tampering of digital and revenue records and misuse of official machinery against poor cultivators.
AIKM demanded that the present District Joint Collector be appointed as inquiry officer and that a detailed probe be conducted into the illegal restoration of the khata, forged documents and the role of officials and private persons involved.
The organisation also demanded immediate registration of a criminal case against Rayavarapu Chandrasekhar Rao, since two gazetted officers had already filed complaints over forgery of their signatures and official seals. It also demanded that the death of Duvvuri Suryaprakasham be investigated as a suspicious death case.
The ongoing satyagraha by tribal, Dalit, Bahujan and poor farmers reflects growing anger against land grabbing, forged records and administrative inaction. AIKM demanded that the government protect the rights of cultivating poor farmers, restore their names in land records, cancel all illegal entries and punish those misusing revenue records, digital signatures and official seals to grab land.
