Land to be protected at any cost: Krishi Jami Raksha Committee

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Barasat, Mar 19 (UNI) The Krishi Jami Raksha committee, spearheading the ongoing movement against the state's large scal land acquisition for industrialisation, today reaffirmed its stand to protect agricultural land at any cost, committee state secretary Pradip Bandopadhyay said at Deganga in North 24 Parganas.

The committee, announced that Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee would visit Deganga on March 25.

Accompanied by committee chief and Opposition leader of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly Partho Chattopadhyay, Mr Bandopadhyay today visited Dogachhia and Ramnathpur in Deganga. A part of the nearly 2,000 acres of land for which the district authorities in North 24 Parganas had issued notification to maintain status-quo with a view to acquiring it, is located in these villages.

Addressing people in both the villages, the two leaders advised them to unite, irrespective of their political ideologies, for the sake of their agricultural land and form preparatory committees in respective villages to launch mass movement.

They assured the villagers would get the Krishi Jami Raksha Committee's help.

''The villagers of Deganga should not stay idle believing that the district administration or the state government had withdrawn its earlier notification. It has only kept it in abeyance following the strong protest from all over for the time being,'' Mr Chattopadhyay asserted.

Mr Chattopadhyay, however, alleged that Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and his party virtually 'cheated' the poor peasants and farmers and said that the Krishi Jami Raksha Committee would not leave any stone unturned to turn Deganga into another Singur or Nandigram.

UNI

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