We will stop Modi’s land bill: Sitaram Yechury

 

The proposed bill is aimed at paying back all corporates who had helped PM Narendra Modi and BJP during the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, Mr Yechury told  a rally held to oppose the land acquisition legislation. "Clearly what the Modi government is doing is that they want this Act in order to deprive our peasantry, our country, our agriculture of this valuable land, and give it to the land sharks; they want to pay back all those who have helped the BJP and Modi in the election campaign," Yechury said. "This law is a pay back style law," he told reporters. 

 

If the Siddaramaiah government had implemented the 2013 Land Bill, the government could have protected agricultural land in Karnataka, said social activist Medha Patkar. Coming down  on the Modi led NDA government, she said she did not believe the words of Mr Modi because he had always protected the interest of big industrial houses. "In the name of industrial corridors from Delhi to Mumbai and Mumbai to Bengaluru, the Union government has decided to acquire nearly 7 lakh hectares of land, farmers should be more cautious about Modi's speeches", she said.