Excelsior Correspondent
-Excelsior/ Rakesh
Kathua, Mar 25: Farmers under the banner of Kissan Movement marched to DC office and held a massive protest demonstration by blocking college road for half an hour in front of DC office here and submitted memorandum declaring their opposition to the Modi Government’s proposed Land Acquisition Bill.
The protest was led by former Power Minister Babu Singh, leaders of the movement Karan Singh, Surinder Singh, Ranbir Singh, Ashwani Kumar, and farmer’s sympathizer Master Shiv Nandan and they sought the intervention of the president to protect the interests of the Indian peasantry by asking the Modi Government to refrain from going ahead with its proposed bill.
While speaking during the protest, Babu Singh said, this Bill will open the doors for forcible acquisition as was permitted under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 which the 2013 law replaced to damage the entire agriculture sector of the country just to appease the corporate houses. In addition to this, industrial corridors which have been exempted from seeking consent and being evaluated through the SIA, can now acquire a large area of additional land which opens doors to profiteering at the expense of farmers which exposes the Modi Government’s approach pro-corporate capitalists and anti farmers which is unfair practice of Union Government as a part of conspiracy to snatch the land from farmers to hand over to corporate world hatched on the direction capitailts.
Kissan Movement is of the firm opinion that the Bill is anti-farmer and goes against all democratic principles and the manner in which this land Acquisition Bill has been sought to push through reveals the authoritarian mindset of the Modi Sarkar, Singh further added.
“Babu Singh alleged that the Government has embarked on a deliberate and conscious course of action, designed to tilt the public policy unfairly and undeservedly in favour of those who claim to create “wealth”, and reveals that Government is determined to prioritise the corporate sector at the expense of the farmers by the simple device of snatching away their land.
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