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Farmer assns castigate centre
Representatives of farmers and farmers’ associations here on Saturday blamed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for bring in an ordinance amending Land Acquisition Act. The farmers blamed the Modi government for diluting the provisions of the Land Acquisition Act 2013. They stressed the need to build a country-wide movement to mount pressure on the Centre to withdraw the ordinance and abandon its decision to amend the Act.
Amendment to Land Acquisition Act
Vijayawada: Representatives of farmers and farmers’ associations here on Saturday blamed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for bring in an ordinance amending Land Acquisition Act. The farmers blamed the Modi government for diluting the provisions of the Land Acquisition Act 2013. They stressed the need to build a country-wide movement to mount pressure on the Centre to withdraw the ordinance and abandon its decision to amend the Act.
Andhra Pradesh Rythu Sangham general secretary Ravula Venkaiah, who organised the meeting, blamed the Centre for promulgating the ordinance diluting the provision in the Land Acquisition Act. He said the UPA government had brought the Act after a prolonged agitation across the country by several farmers and farmers’ associations.
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Former minister Vadde Sobhanadreeswara Rao regretted that the Union government made a bid to subvert the Land Acquisition Act for the benefit industrialists and business houses. Rao alleged that the governments, while giving several tax and other exemptions to industrialists and business houses, was denying farmers their basic rights. He expressed anguish over the government considering the rights of farmers as hindrance to growth.
He blamed the Andhra Pradesh government for bringing in a new system of land pooling to acquire lands and give them to industrialists and corporate companies. Farmers’ leaders Vangala Subba Rao, Malneedu Yalamanda Rao, M V S Nagi Reddy, Mukkamala Umamaheswara Rao, Peddi Venkata Rathnam, Kolanukonda Sivaji spoke. The meeting resolved to build a nation-wide movement to force the Centre government to withdraw the ordinance on land acquisition.
