Hundreds of farmers from over 10 villages of the Rai region under the banner of the “Bhoomi Adhigrahan Virodhi Sangharsh Samitis” of Biswan Meel, Badhkhalsa and Kundli took out a march on the GT Road today in protest against the acquisition of their land for the Rajiv Gandhi Education City and industrial sectors in the region.
The protesters covered more than 2 km on foot and tractor-trailers from the Biswan Meel turning on the GT Road to the main gate of the city, raising slogans against the state government. They pledged to oppose the laying of foundation stones for 12 educational institutes in the education city by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on June 10 .
Talking to mediapersons, Virender Singh, convener of the Badhkhalsa Sangharsh Samiti, said most of the farmers of Badhkhalsa had neither accepted the compensation fixed for their land nor had given possession of about 260 acres acquired in the village.
“We have approached the Chief Minister a number of times in the past six years; but he had not given any weight to our demands,” he alleged.
Virender Singh threatened that if Hooda was adamant on laying the foundation stones of educational institutions on June 10, it would be opposed by farmers of the region.
Ram Chander and Rajpal Sevli of the Biswan Meel Sangharsh Samiti said the state government was adamant on ruining farmers by acquiring fertile land at throughaway prices to benefit people with vested interests.
Speaking in the same language, State BKU (A) president Shamsher Singh said a delegation of farmers would meet the Governor on June 5 to hand over a memorandum in protest against the acquisition of their land.
They said the state government should suspend all its activities on the acquired land till the new land acquisition Bill was passed in Parliament
-TNS
PS: source, Manoja bhai.

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