AAP demands withdrawal of ordinance on Land Acquisition

MUMBAI: Aam Aadmi Party, Land Acquisition Act, Maharashtra# Mumbai: The Aam Aadmi Party on Monday held protests across Maharashtra demanding the withdrawal of the ordinance issued by the centre on the Land Acquisition Act, 2013. ''This has set the clock back to the British colonial area allowing land to be taken away from farmers and adivasis without any process of obtaining consent or even an assessment of who exactly is getting impacted by the land acquisition and to what extent.

The 2013 Act was the culmination of decades of struggle by farmers' movements and social movements across the country against the sheer injustice of the land acquisition process which had displaced crores of families in the name of national interest while they were not even consulted or made part of the process of development. The government has, in one stroke, betrayed the entire farming and adivasi community and made it clear to them that the government is putting the interests of its powerful corporate masters above the interests of the majority of the citizens,'' said a party press release.

The AAP has also demanded that any proposed amendments should be brought to Parliament for a full debate. ``Through its protest, Aam Aadmi Party puts the government on notice that farmers, adivasis and justice-minded citizens across the nation are rising up against this injustice and will not tolerate any dilution of the Act,'' said the press release.

The party said the press release would raise the issue in Parliament and in the court of public opinion. After a long struggle and negotiation, the government and the Indian polity agreed to some basic principles: Land acquisition must not take place without a process of obtaining consent; Land acquisition must not be permitted in multi-crop land jeopardizing food security; Acquisition must be preceded by an assessment of its impact not just on land owners but on all sections of the society, and this must happen transparently with public hearings.

``These principles go for a toss with the passage of this ordinance. The amendments would mean that Social Impact Assessment, food security provision & consent of land owners will now be a thing of past in the five categories specified by the government. The five categories which the government has specified are so inclusive that it may accommodate any sort of project in it,'' said the release.

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