Sukhi Lala Rules Mother India!
But the ruling land mafia hegemony faces very stiff resistance in mineral India inhibited mostly by the tribal people who always have been fighting for Jal JangalJameen and always salwa judum continues against them. On name of development, the rest of India does not see any meat in their resistance.
It is all over Mahajani Sabhyata yet again. Seven decades passed, no one dares to talk on land reforms. Ambedkar's agenda of annihilation has become the identity politics to sustain the Manusmriti hegemony to kill agrarian India without any resistance whatsoever.
But the ruling land mafia hegemony faces very stiff resistance in mineral India inhibited mostly by the tribal people who always have been fighting for Jal Jangal Jameen and always salwa judum continues against them. On name of development, the rest of India does not see any meat in their resistance.
The communists having launched indiscriminate land acquisition in Bengal and opted for industrialization and urbanization just forgot land reforms.
Since Nehru age, land has been always acquired violating fifth and sixth schedules, forest laws, environment act, seacoast international laws and constitutional safeguards. Jal Jangal Jameen has been captured all on the name of development and public cause using land acquisition act 1884.
Finally, the law was modified very recently inserting consent and compensation clauses.
But the business friendly Modi government wants to amend the law once again and claims that it would be in the best interest of the peasants.
In fact, it makes no difference as the rule of law has always been absent and Sukhi Lala is always empowered enough in the rural India to exploit mother India and displace and destroy her kith and Kin.
Land use is changed vertically for non-agrarian purpose and we witness the disastrous changes heralding calamities one after one.
Dislodging the green top for PPP projects needs no public hearing whatsoever and builders, promoters and mafias have taken over inch by inch land potential for urbanisation?
The farmers in every corner of the country dare to claim- THIS LAND IS OUR LAND and the land acquisition bill has become a hot potato against a backdrop of farmer strife and we have already witnessed political high drama in New Delhi where a farmer was sacrificed for political mileage.
Sunday Economic Times have focused on this issue.
I have been writing on this issue time and again. I want to highlight the issues of land acquisition as the government and industry try to focus. Thus, I am posting these articles to understand the logic of land acquisition and the PM Mon key Baaten. Which claims that the strength of the 2015 Land Bill is its implicit rejection of the colonial-era Land Acquisition Act of 1894, with its concept of preeminent domain?
Palash Biswas
