People's Democracy
(Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)
No.
14
April 04, 2010
|
Vol. XXXIV
No.
14 April 04, 2010 |
MADHYA PRADESH
CPI(M) Holds Conference of
Displaced
People
Vinay Dwivedi
THE
Communist Party of India (Marxist) announced during a one day state
conference
of victims of displacement held in Neelam Park of Bhopal on March 27, 2010, that
it would launch a jail bharo agitation at district
level and divisional level
respectively on April 8 and April 26 against forceful land acquisition
and
displacement of farmers and tribals in Madhya Pradesh.
�We
will intensify our agitation both in divisions and districts on the
issue of
ousters and displacement due to forceful land acquisition and also take
out a
15-day march in the displaced affected areas,� said CPI (M) state
secretary
Badal Saroj. Addressing the second state conference Saroj also said the
chief
minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is avoiding to meet the CPI (M)
delegation for
over last six months.
The
chief minister is not courteous enough to give time to a national level
political party�s delegation to discuss the issue of land grabbing
which is
unprecedented and did not happen even during emergency period. He is
avoiding
us because without his consent such a large scale illegal land grabbing
and
scam is not possible, Saroj said. He further added that the chief
minister of
this state is inviting investors from all over the world but rejecting
the
demands of real dwellers of this state.
The
state committee of CPI(M) gave a 15-point memorandum to the governor,
chief
minister and state�s revenue minister demanding a probe into the
alleged
displacements. It should be noted that CPI(M) is leading the struggle
for last
two and a half years in Singrouli and long padyatras
were organised on this issue.
The
BJP led state government gravely distorted the historic act of giving
land to
tribals passed in parliament due to left intervention. The numbers of
rejected
applications of tribals were highest in the state.
Large
number of displaced villagers, farmers and tribals from Satna, (Lilji
dam
area), Singrauli, Morena, Rewa, Umariya, Anuppur, Narsinghpur, Khandwa
and Khargone
gathered at Neelam park in the city to narrate their ordeal of
displacement
from their land. �We have been living in Lilji dam area for decades, we
have
been forcefully removed from our lands as the local administration
fudged land
revenue records, making it easier for them to throw us out,� a group of
villagers from Satna said.
The
conference was addressed by Ramnarayan Kurariya, state general
secretary of Kisan
Sabha, Neena Sharma, state general secretary of
All India Democratic Women�s Association, Pramod Pradhan, state
general
secretary of Centre of Indian Trade Unions, Girijesh Sengar, state
general
secretary of Democratic Youth Federation of India, Ashopk Tiwari,
Ramayan
Pandey and Brij kishore Dwivedi of CPI(M), Veerendra Singh, leader of
Lilji dam
movement, Rohit Tiwari, JP Cement displacement victim Ramjeet Patel, KK
Shukla,
Kisan leader Gayaram Singh Dhakad, PN Mahor, Kallaram Kushwah and
Bhaialal
Tripathi , tribal leader Buddhasen Singh Gond, Baljeet Singh Gond, CITU
leader
AT Padmanabhan and P N Verma.
The
speakers who gave their full support to the conference and the struggle
of the
farmers under the leadership of CPI(M) were Guljar Singh Markam, state
president of Gondwana Mukti Sena, Suryabhan Singh Patel, state
president of
Apna Dal and Kunwar Singh, state president of Lok Janshakti Party.
The
CPI (M) has demanded that instead of providing free land to
industrialists it
should be given to rightful claimants by initiating land reform in the
state.
Demanding
a probe into the business of illegal land acquisition, the Party said
that both
administration and industrial houses were hand-in-gloves to grab farm
land for
setting up cement and power plants and those involved in it should be
prosecuted.
Major Demands
Instead
of agricultural land, non-farm and barren land should be given for
industrialisation
