CPI to hold 'militant forms of struggle' against Land Bill

Stepping up its opposition to Land Acquisition Bill, CPI today announced that it will hold "militant forms of struggle" on May 14 throughout the country and asked all political parties to reject the legislation in Parliament and save rural people from "catastrophe".
A resolution adopted at the ongoing 22nd national Congress of the party here, decided to observe May 14 as "all India protest day" when all the units of the party across the country would stage "militant forms of struggle" that day to protest the bill.
Releasing copies of resolutions adopted at the plenary session of the party Congress, its national secretary Shameem Faizee told reporters that all the units of the party across the country would observe "jail bharo, demonstration and rasta roko and other militant forms of struggle" on that day.

The resolution called upon all political parties to reject the Bill in Parliament and save the rural people from a catastrophe."
It appealed to farmers, agricultural workers, trade unions, civil society, organisations and other stakeholders "to forge broadest possible unity to defeat the nefarious designs of the BJP government".
He said the meet noted that the Bill "will be a big threat to our food security in the coming days". The Bill had been brought "to allow foreign and local corporates, land mafia and builder lobby to snatch away the multi-crop irrigated land of farmers. This will be a great threat to food security in coming days".

CPI was of the firm opinion that "a genuine fear on Land Acquisition Bill 2015 has begun haunting agrarian community", Faizee said, addding, the provisions in the new bill withdraw the "social impact assessment, which is an issue of paramount importance".
The Centre's proposal for 18 industrial corridors will engulf more than 35 five per cent of cultivable land which will pave the way for thousands of villages to disappear and crores of people will lose their livelihood and this will bring a "social chaos", Faizee said.