Jammu, Jan 16: Communist Party of India (CPI)- Marxist leader Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami has voiced deep concern over the government’s move of divesting the people of the land registered under various titles in revenue records across Jammu and Kashmir.
CPI (M) demanded putting an immediate halt on forcible land acquisition and immediate withdrawal of the recent order.
In a statement issued to Rising Kashmir, Tarigami said the administration is totally blind towards the destruction of the livelihood of the rural poor. “Is this the beginning of the process of “Acche din”? The administration is conducting false propaganda that the land is being acquired for development purposes but the facts are contrary to its claims,” he alleged.
Tarigami expressed concern over mobilization of government machinery to dispossess the poor and exclude the land registered as Kahchairi, Shamilat and so on. “The people who are living off this land have found themselves in a bind after the government’s recent order”.
He said the government is making desperate attempts to pauperize the people by snatching their land and creating private land banks in the name of retrieving the “state land”. “The move is not only bound to render thousands of people roofless, but also divest many of cultivation rights”.
Tarigami further alleged that the government in order to digress from the pressing issues including unemployment, have started retrieving the land of the poor. “The non-BJP political parties must come together to fight against the move”.
CPI(M) demanded putting an immediate halt on forcible land acquisition and immediate withdrawal of recent order and appealed to all shades of public opinion to unitedly raise the voice against such disastrous moves of the administration.
