Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 7: One day convention of Jammu and Kashmir Kisan Tehreek was held at Reasi to discuss and deliberate upon the pathetic condition of the farmers, non-availability of fertilizers during peak season, eviction of poor people from state/common land, alarming unemployment problem and unabated price rise etc.
The convention was organised by district President Sohan Lal and among others attended by Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami, senior leader CPI (M) and MLA.
Addressing the convention, Tarigami said, “it is very unfortunate that State Government has tacitly allowed big land sharks to occupy, encroach and fraudulently transfer the State land throughout the length and breadth of the State”, adding “in the capital cities of Srinagar and Jammu, other major towns and rural areas, the priced public land has either been encroached by the influential and the rich even without technical formalities or has been acquired for peanuts”.
Instead of investigating into this scandal and launching a sustained campaign to get back this land which comes to thousands of hectares, the State administration has come down on marginal farmers and poor landless villagers in distant areas of district Reasi in Jammu, the CPM MLA said.
He urged the administration to stop forcible eviction and resolve the issue after listening the objections and grievances of the affected persons as stubborn way to deal with the situation will have very negative and unwanted consequences.
G N Malik, General Secretary Jammu and Kashmir Kisan Tehreek said that promises for return of “Achhe Din’’ for farmers and working people have turned to be an illusion and nightmare as the condition of this section of people has, in fact, deteriorated during the last two and half years rule of BJP-led Union Government.
“The prices of the essential commodities have escalated vastly while as the purchasing power of large sections of the society has diminished terribly owing to retrenchment of labour force due to demonetization”, he said.
Kishore Kumar, President of J&K Kisan Tehreek asserted that all farmers across the State should be issued KCCs to enable them to avail the loans from the financial institutions and banks and ensure speedy implementation of Crop Insurance Scheme.
Sham Prasad Kesar, Regional Secretary, CPI(M) exhorted that united struggle is the only way to pressurize the Government to resolve the problems of the working people.
Among others, Om Prakash, President, J&K CITU and Sohan Lal senior Kisan leader also addressed the convention.
The resolutions regarding alarming unemployment in the State, unabated price rise especially of essential commodities, uninterrupted corrupt practices at various levels of administration, non-availability of fertilizers during peak farming seasons, inclusion of deserving families under BPL category, roll back of recent steep hike in the prices of food items under APL category, procurement of maize and rice from surplus producing areas, free electricity to agriculture pumping stations were moved and adopted unanimously.
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