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CPI-M protests against Janajati people’s land-grabbing drive by BJP Govt
TIWN July 22, 2019
CPI-M protests against Janajati people’s land-grabbing drive by BJP Govt
PHOTO : CPI-M protesting at Agartala. TIWN Pic July 22

AGARTALA, July 22 (TIWN): CPI-M has staged massive protest here in Agartala to protect Forest Act 2006.

A massive rally comprised of all communities people have stood together in favour of the act’s preservation.

Addressing media, former MP, Ganamukti Parishad President Jitendra Chaudhury said, “As everyone knows, just ahead of Lok Sabha Election, few NGOs and Indian Forest Service’s former employees filed a case in Supreme Court against Forest Right Act 2006. The petition was filed in the name of saving the environment, whereas on the other side, the corporates are getting Govt landsmassively. As Govt didn’t come in support of indigenous people, thus SC’s verdict went in support of the petitioners”. “According to the claim around 30 lakhs families will be evicted from forest landunder the petition affecting crores of people”, Jitendra Chaudhury said.

On the other side, the Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) strongly condemns the brutal killing of ten adivasi landless farmers, including three women by criminal land grabbing mafia in Umbha village, Sonbhadra district,  backed by the UP Government and administration. The adivasis have been tilling the land for the last seven decades but no Government gave them the land pattas which was their right. After the Adityanath Government took office, the adivasis have been threatened by the local land mafia to stop tilling the land.

Even though the adivasis had complained to the authorities, the Government and administration refused to act. The Adityanath Government is trying to put the responsibility on others but it is during the rule of his Government that the land mafia led by the pradhan claimed to have “bought” the land and unleashed terror on the adivasis. It is highly condemnable that the Government has not given a single rupee to help the injured and on the contrary some were forcibly discharged from the hospital.

Clearly the current regime is responsible for protecting the land mafia and denying land pattas to the adivasis.

The CPI(M) demands that the land pattas are immediately given to the adivasi families who have been tilling the land for over seven decades. It demands strong action against the administration officials and the police who connived with the criminals and immediate arrest and stringent punishment of all those involved in the brutal massacre. It demands immediate compensation to the families of those killed and to the injured. Government has to ensure free rations to the families who are deprived of their livelihood.

 

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