CPI(M) would do "whatever is required" in Parliament to stop the Narendra Modi government from implementing "anti-farmer, anti-people" land acquisition law, party General Secretary Sitaram Yechury said on Tuesday.
CPI(M) would do "whatever is required" in Parliament to stop the Narendra Modi government from implementing "anti-farmer, anti-people" land acquisition law, party General Secretary Sitaram Yechury said on Tuesday.
The proposed bill is aimed at paying back all those corporates who had helped Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP during the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, Yechury told reporters and a rally held to oppose the land acquisition legislation here.
"Clearly what the Modi government is doing is that they want this Act in order to deprive our peasantry, our country, our agriculture of this valuable land, and give it to the land sharks; they are wanting to pay back all those who have helped the BJP and Modi in the election campaign," Yechury said.
"This law is a pay back style law," he told reporters on the sidelines of the rally.
About 12 organisations held the rally under the banner of 'Karnataka Joint Platform of Farmers, Dalits and Agricultural workers against Land Acquisition Ordinance'.
At the rally, Yechury alleged that land is being acquired not for industrialisation, but for speculation of profit in the real estate.
"Whatever is required we will do in Parliament to stop this Modi government from implementing this anti-farmer, anti-people legislation," he said.
The rally was attended by several farmer and Dalit leaders from Karnataka, along with expelled AAP leader Yogendra Yadav, social activist Medha Patkar and All India Kisan Sabha General Secretary Hannan Mollah. Yechury said the Modi government argues that without land acquisition bill there cannot be industrialisation but the reality was that of all the land acquired for the special economic zone more than 50% of it is lying without any industrial activity.
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