Land acquisition: Ajay asks MP govt to resolve farmers' woes

Leader of Opposition in Madhya Pradesh Assembly, Ajay Singh, today demanded that the state government should resolve the problems of farmers who have been opposing land acquisition in Katni district.
"Instead of patting his own back, (Chief Minister Shivraj Singh) Chouhan should take care of farmers staging a protest by sitting over unlit funeral pyres in Bujbuja and Dokaria villages in protest against their land acquisition for an industry," Ajay said in a statement here.
For the last two years, farmers in Katni's Bujbuja and Dokaria villages have been staging protest but in vain, despite the fact that so far six farmers have given their lives over the issue, he said.

The issue had earlier come to light after farmers in the district staged a unique protest by sitting over unlit funeral pyres to protest land acquisition for a private company's proposed power plant.
Chouhan is not concerned about the issue despite the state being on top on atrocities against women and suicide by farmers, Ajay mentioned.