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| BJP, JSM, PP members stage walkout from LA | | Delay in Compensation to farmers on border | | KUNAL SHRIVATSA
JAMMU, Mar 7: Enraged over the delay in release of compensation to farmers, whose cultivable lands are beyond the barbed wire fence along Indo- Pak International Border in Kathua district, the opposition parties including Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Jammu & Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) and Jammu State Morcha (JSM) today staged walkout from the State Legislative Assembly.
As the House assembled in the morning, the BJP member Durga Dass on his feet accused the government of delay in releasing compensation to farmers who have been unable to cultivate their land due to the fixation of barbed wire along the International Border.
Durga Dass while raising the issue claimed that the farmers, whose land is near the fencing, were facing hardships as the Security Forces were denying permission to them to till their lands.
“A vast area of agricultural land is located across the fencing but the helpless farmers are not being allowed to cultivate it,” Durga Dass said.
He informed the House that people in village Chanderchak near Hiranagar were staging a sit-in for the last six days but their demands had not been considered as yet.
“The Government is not paying attention to the plight of affected farmers who have been sitting on dharna for compensation for the last six days,” the legislator said.
The MLA while complaining said that the Government had earmarked an amount of Rs 5 crore as compensation to the affected farmers but the allocated money has not been disbursed among the farming community and was lying with the District Development Commissioner (DDC), Kathua for the last five years.
Opposition members from other parties including JKNPP and JSM also supported the issue demanding government to deliver justice to the farmers living close to border.
JKNPP legislators Harsh Dev Singh, Yashpal Kundal and Balwant Mankotia along with lone JSM member Ashwani Sharma said that the delay in releasing compensation is causing hardships for the farmers of border areas.
After the protesting MLAs could not get satisfactory response from the government, shouting slogans they first came into the well of the House and then staged walk out from the House in protest. |
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