Mudigonda is a town and revenue-divisional headquarters located 14 km from

Khammam Khammam formally (Khammam Mettu) is the city in Khammam district of the Indian state of Telangana. It is the fourth largest city in the state. It is the headquarters of the Khammam district and Khammam mandal also. It is located about east of ...

, the headquarters of the

Khammam District Khammam district is a district in the eastern region of the Indian state of Telangana. The city of Khammam is the district headquarters. The district shares boundaries with Suryapet, Mahabubabad, Bhadradri districts and with Eluru and NTR dis ...

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, India.

Introduction

Mudigonda is one of the mandal headquarters in Khammam district. It is located along the

Kodad Kodad is a town in Suryapet district of the Indian state of Telangana. It is a municipality and the mandal headquarters of Kodad mandal in Kodad revenue division. It lies on the National Highway 65 between Hyderabad and Vijayawada. It is 44&nbs ...

main road. Mudigonda mandal is surrounded by lot of villages, of which Vallabhi and Bhanapuram are the biggest. The main occupation of the people is

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. It is also featured with a rural police station, since it is a politically sensitive mandal. There are huge

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deposits and number of

mills. Tourist spots at Mudigonda include the Sri Chennakesava and Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Swami temples, Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Gattu, and the Sri Veera Brahmendhra Swami temples. It was once the capital city of Mudigonda Chalukyas.

Villages

The villages in Mudigonda mandal includes: Ammapeta, Banapuram, Chirumarri, Gandhasiri, Gokinepalli, Kamalapuram, Kattakoor, New Lakshmipuram, Madhapuram, Mallannapalem, Mallaram, Medepalli, Mudigonda, Mutharam, Pammi, Pandregupalli, Pedamandava, Suvarnapuram, Vallabhi, Vallapuram, Vanam Vari Krishnapuram, Venkatapuram and Yadavalli

Police firing

The communist parties' agitation seeking land for the landless poor in

took a violent turn on 28 July 2007 as at least eight agitators were killed in the police firing on the protestors here in Mudigonda town.The Hindu : Telangana News : Rajasekhara Reddy orders suspension of Additional SP
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The policemen, most of them in plainclothes as they generally do in naxalite-prone areas, opened fire on the agitators when the protests turned violent and the vehicle of a senior police officer was attacked. The driver of a truck, which was stopped by the protestors, was also among the dead. Telugu TV channels aired pictures of policemen firing several rounds from automatic weapons on the protestors. Most of the victims were inadvertently shot above the legs due to the tense situation under which the out-numbered security personnel were operating. The police firing evoked sharp reaction from all opposition parties. The main opposition party in Andhra Pradesh (present day

State), the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), which had backed the day long shutdown, termed the police firing as barbaric and inhuman. Eight persons, including a woman, were killed and eight others injured, three of them critically, when police fired to quell a stone-pelting mob at Mudigonda village in

Khammam district Khammam district is a district in the eastern region of the Indian state of Telangana. The city of Khammam is the district headquarters. The district shares boundaries with Suryapet, Mahabubabad, Bhadradri districts and with Eluru and NTR dis ...

as the bandh turned violent.

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