New land bill is 'great' threat to food security: CPI

CPI today appealed to all the political parties and farmers to reject the new land acquisition bill, alleging that it was brought by the NDA government to "snatch" away the multi-crop irrigated land of farmers.
The party also claimed that it will be a great threat to food security in coming days.
CPI also said that the BJP Government's proposals for 18 industrial corridors will engulf more than 35 per cent of cultivable land which will pave the way for thousands of villages to disappear and crores of people will loose their livelihood and this will bring a social chaos.

In a resolution moved by senior party leader Atul Kumar Anjan in the ongoing 22nd Party Congress in Puducherry, it has urged farmers and other stakeholders to forge "broadest" possible unity to defeat the "nefarious" designs of BJP government while observing May 14 as a 'All India Protest Day'.
"The bill has been brought by BJP-led NDA Government 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 our food security in coming days.
"The CPI calls upon to all political parties to reject this bill in Parliament and save the rural people from a catastrophe," the party said in a statement.

The party said that while the new proposal of the government has withdrawn the clause of 80 per cent consent of farmers before their land is acquired, it also withdraws the social impact assessment which is an issue of "paramount importance".
"A genuine fear on Land Acquisition Bill 2015 has began haunting agrarian community," the statement said.
Meanwhile, during the Plenary Delegate Session, the draft Political Resolution approved by the National Council of the party was introduced. It analysed the current political situation and outlined the political tactics to be adopted by the party in the coming period.