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| FONL for re-fixing rates, conferring ownership rights on lease land | | ‘Decides to resort to relay hunger strike to press its demands’ | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | May 15
To press its demands for re-fixing the rates on rational basis and conferring ownership rights in respect of the land under their possession for the last 50 to 80 years, the Forum of Lease Holders/Occupants of Nazool/ Government land (FONL) has decided resorting to relay hunger strike. To start with, 24 hour relay hunger strike by each group of five volunteers of the Forum is being launched soon.
The decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of the FONL held under the chairmanship of Inderjeet Khajuria here today.
Those present at the meeting were S S Pathania, President, Gajan Singh general secretary, Iqbal Khullar secretary, Somnath Sharma vice president., M L Sharma Treasure and Ajay Bakshi joint secretary.
Addressing the meeting, Khajuria said that the demonstration held by farmers and urban land holders at Badgam, the other day against implementation of Roshni scheme, blasts the government claim that conferring ownership rights on the occupants of lands has provided relief to the occupants and a large number of people are benefited out of it. The so-called Roshni Act, he said, ‘has in fact turned out to be an act of darkness’, particularly in the case of lease holders of government land in the urban areas who are being demanded exorbitant rates ranging from Rs.40 lakh to Rs.1.5 crore per kanal in respect of lands already under their possession for several decades.
Forum General Secretary Gajan Singh, quoting Chief Minister that 2846 kanals of agricultural land, valuing at Rs.114.19 crore has been transferred to 1077 beneficiaries under the scheme, said the government wants to make good this loss to the state exchequer by putting the entire burden on the lease holders of government land. He said this move of the government would be forcefully resisted.
Forum President Pathania addressing the meeting said that glaring disparity of giving raw deal to one section of the people and dolling benefits to other section is highly discriminating and called for equal treatment to one and all.
Inderjeet Khajuria said that while the government is giving preferential treatment to the agriculturists in the rural areas, being the solid vote bank, it is doing great injustice to the lease holders in urban areas, who are scattered and could hardly be influenced by sops in the elections. ‘The government’s entire exercise is politically motivated with an eye on electoral gains’, he said, and appealed all the affected people to join hands for giving a benefiting reply to those who are subjecting them to harassment and distress.
The Forum has threatened to go for an indefinite hunger strike if the government failed to consider its genuine demands within a given time frame. |
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