Oppose And Resist The Undemocratic Land Acquisition, Rehab, Resettlement Ordinance
Bhoomi – a
Forum for Protection of Land in India (FPLI) resolved on 22nd January
2015 at Visakhapatnam meet to call upon people of India to oppose and
resist the undemocratic Land Acquisition, Rehab, Resettlement (LARR)
ordinance to take away the democratic rights of the farmers, tribals
given in the Act 2013. The soul of the new Act was that the acquisition
could not be done without consent of 80% land owners and Social Impact
Assessment on which the public hearing was must.
But without consulting the public, people
and organizations and political parties and Parliament members the
Union Government’s ordinance to end the democratic action of land
acquisition process is nothing but to establish despotic corporate rule
in our country at the cost of life and livelihood of millions of
farmers, agriculture workers, Fishers, Adivasis and Dalits. This
arbitrary anti-people decision is the gateway of corporate governance
which will also mill the Forest Rights Act 2006 and the autonomy of Gram
Sabha, PESA CRZ regulations, environment protection on laws by which
the Fishers, Adivasis, Dalits all the marginalized people depending on
natural resources like sea, forest, land of any category, rivers in name
of so called development.
As main opposition party BJB had extended
support to the LARR in two houses of parliament to be smoothly passed
but its newly elected government did not hesitate to murder a democratic
people’s law made after more than hundred people sacrificed their lives
resisting forceful land acquisition under 1894 law. As a result of this
ordinance, corporates will continue to take over the common and
people’s resources for their own growth in the name of nation
development that will further aggravate the trend.
It is an attack on constitutional
fundamental rights of the people of our country who have right to
resources for secured life and livelihood with dignity guaranteed by the
constitution. Unless and until we resist this corporate fascist move to
handover our resources to the corporates of gluteal imperialism and
build united struggle to make our polity and development model free from
corporate power, our great constitution will be irrelevant. So to
campaign and resist all the anti-corporate and anti-communal people’s
organizations and democratic movements have to come together to
discharge a historical responsibility for a rational struggle for
reconstruction of sovereign, socialist, democratic and republic and
secular nation as per the preamble of our constitution.
We call upon on all the organizations and
alliances to protest the ordinance and force the government to withdraw
it as well as appeal to the members of Parliament irrespective of
political parties to force the central government to withdraw it. We
also call upon the various communities to pass resolutions in the gram
sabhas against the draconian LARR ordinance as well as to protest in
state, district and village levels to establish democratic right.
A massive campaign for awareness and mass
protest rallies will be organized to demonstrate the people’s power to
reclaim and protect the rights as ensured in the constitution.
Bhoomi – a Forum for Protection of Land in India (FPLI)
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