Sunday 12 July 2015

Subverting a progressive law - The Hindu

Subverting a progressive law - The Hindu







Subverting a progressive law- By RAM SINGH
&DEEPA A. PANWAR
– July 9, 2015


http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/subverting-a-progressive-law/article7400012.ece





A view of the Parliament House in New Delhi. SUBJECT LINE:  WE need to FIGHT
TOOTH and NAIL, using all DEMOCRATIC MEANS at our DISPOSAL both INSIDE as well
as OUTSIDE  the PARLIAMENT to PREVENT the
Government’s “LAND GRAB BILL” in its present form, from becoming an ACT without
REINTRODUCTION of ORIGINAL Clauses of CONSENT / SIA / Return of land if UNUSED
even after five Years etc, that were part of the Original UPA–II Bill that was
passed in 2013 and has not even been TESTED so far for its EFFICACY!




             APART from "JUMLAS &
JUMLAS & JUMLAS & JUMLAS&..........never ending JUMLAS" from
the Mascot "JUMLAMAN" of the Bharatya "JUMLA" Party with
which  nothing else is delivered, even
through his " Man Ka "JUMLA", while  the FARMERS are now in EXTREME DISTRESS due
to the RECENT UNSEASONAL RAINS before the actual monsoon and UNPRECEDENTED HAIL
STORMS that  destroyed their STANDING
CROPS FORCING on an average, nearly 42 FARMERS to COMMIT suicides DAILY all
over India and  they have not EVEN GOT
the BIZARRELY MINIMUM RELIEF that this "JUMLA GOVT - a GOVT. by, of &
for CORPORATE" and its State governments have SHAMELESSLY ANNOUNCED, while
the AAP government in DELHI had announced a COMPENSATION of Rs 50, 000/- Per
Hectare!
                        AND in ADDITION to this
INSENSITIVE / CALLOUS DISREGARD for FARMERS WOES , this "JUMLA GOVT - a
GOVT. by, of & for CORPORATE" is FEROCIOUSLY PEDDLING the ANTI- FARMER
BILL, a Bill that in its current AMENDED FORM, really amounts to a "
FARMER'S LAND GRAB BILL with SKETCHY REHABILITATION PROPOSALS and which also
RIDES on a CAVEAT of "JISKI LAATHI USKI BHAINS?!
               This "CORPORATE LOBBIED
BILL" that has OUTRAGEOUSLY UNDEMOCRATIC and AUTOCRATIC sections against
the FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT of a FARMER to OWN and sell his LAND at his own PLEASURE
and with his CONSENT, should be fought TOOTH and NAIL as otherwise it will end
up as the "LAST NAIL in the COFFINS of FARMERS many of whom are already
committing SUICIDE due to the UN-VIABILITY of FARMING due to the reason that
all INPUT COSTS for FARMING have 
skyrocketed and especially FARMING is totally NONVIABLE in LANDS that
are RAIN FED and depend on POWER for pumping of water from BORE WELLS!
            Now that RAHUL GANDHI, Vice
president of the Congress and also, all the other  OPPOSITION POLITICAL PARTIES in the Parliament
are at their COMBATIVE BEST and have CHOSEN the RIGHT CAUSE to FIGHT for, this
"LAND GRAB BILL with the CAVEAT of JISKI LAATHI USKI BHAINS"
introduced by the BHARASHTACHAR "JUMLA" PARTY Government at the
center SHALL NOW certainly NOT GO THROUGH AND it must not be ALLOWED to GET
THROUGH, without ALL the ESSENTIAL CLAUSES ( that were deleted by the
"JUMLA,U-Turn"- Central Government from the ORIGINAL 2013 Version of
the Bill); being RE-INTRODUCED, that is:

(1)        Consent of the FARMERS before LAND
ACQUISITION (80% for Private / PPP projects and 70% for Government’s
Infrastructural Projects. 
(2)        SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT (S I A) before
LAND ACQUISITION to see the WIDER RAMIFICATIONS of any ACQUISITION that may
AFFECT the LIVES of those even INDIRECTLY DEPENDENT on such a land such as
seasonal labourers and others.
(3)        Return of the LAND to the FARMERS (
original owners) after 5 years if Land Remains UNUSED for the purpose for which
it is acquired by the government in the first place AND above ALL
(4)        Payment of FULL COMPENSATION UPFRONT not
after 3-4 YEARS of acquisition which is the norm  (AND, that is FOUR TIMES the REAL MARKET
PRICE, note, REALMARKET PRICE and not the GOVT. BABUS ARBITRARILY FIXED
FICTICIOUS MARKET RATES since the Government is going to PERMANENTLY TAKE over
the MEANS of the FARMERS LIVELIHOOD!) with all other REHABILITATION /
RESETTLEMENT conditions being fulfilled (Such as a JOB for the EVICTED FARMER
or one member of his Family urgently, and not after 10 - 20 YEARS, but within
some STIPULATED SHORT PERIOD of time!
                         If this Government that has OPENLY PROVED
itself to being a Government “By” the CORPORATES (  WHICH, the Corporates ENSURED through their
MIND BOGGLING FUNDS of several thousands of CRORES that they purportedly gave
to this party as Election Funds!) “,FOR” the CORPORATES and “OF” the CORPORATES
(These two attributes of this Government get proved through the REDUCTION of a
MIND BOGGLING 5 % CORPORATE TAX in the 2015 Budget that may  purportedly RESULT in a CUMULATIVE LOSS of
RUPEES TWO LAKH CRORES to the EXCHEQUER in the Next Five Years and Benefit the
CORPORATES by an EQUAL AMOUNT and also many other BENEFICIAL FINANCIAL POLICIES
and DIRECTIVES that are also going to be immensely beneficial to the
CORPORATES, AND  MOST IMPORTANTLY if this
“LAND GRAB BILL with the CAVEAT of ‘JISKI LAATHI USKI BHAINS’” gets PASSED,
More Sooner than Later , it’s going to RESULT in LIMITLESS and MIND BOGGLING
BONANZAS for the SHARKS belonging to the 
“REAL ESTATE MAFIA” that normally comprises at its CORE of  CORPORATES that are in the REAL ESTATE
Business, POLITICIANS / MINISTERS / CHIEF MINISTERS in POWER  in League with the HAND - In - GLOVES
Government BABUS who can together NOTIFY FARMERS and PRIVATE LANDS for ACQUISITION
first and then DE-NOTIFY FULLY or PARTIALLY for the REAL ESTATE SHARKS to
GOBBLE UP those lands and PROVIDE HUGE AMOUNTS of bribes to their POLITICAL/
Bureaucratic Benefactors through UNDERGROUND BLACK MONEY GIFTS and also through
ALLOTMENTS of SITES in their CONVERTED LAYOUTS to  CLOSE RELATIVES of the MINISTERS/ CHIEF
MINISTERS  and even the HAND-In-GLOVES
Bureaucrats !This is the ROUTE that almost ALL CORRUPT STATE GOVERNMENTS have
USED in the PAST to indulge in LAND SCAMS that were worth THOUSANDS of CRORES!
(One GLARING EXAMPLE: Yeddyurappa headed BJP government from 2008 to 2012 in
KARNATAKA now FACING the LOKAYUKTA CHARGES on Scores of LAND SCAMS that his
government purportedly carried out on a REGULAR BASIS during  three years of his term as the CM on a
similar “MODUS-OPERANDI” because of 
which, the CM – Yeddyurappa had to spend time in the Bangalore Central
Jail and was BELATEDLY made to resign as the CM of Karnataka when these
MULTIPLE SCAMS became the BIGGEST SCANDAL in the COUNTRY AND because of THESE
very SCAMS getting EXPOSED,  the Bharatya
Bharashtachar Party in  Karnataka, LOST
the KARNATAKA Assembly Elections to the Congress in 2013!)

                     SO, this “LAND GRAB”
route  has  CLEARLY the Cent Percent LIKELIHOOD of
becoming the BIGGEST ROUTE and REASON for CORRUPTION in all the WINGS of ANY
and EVERY STATE GOVERNMENT AND if we Indians want the  MIND BOGGLING LEVELS of CORRUPTION that have
purportedly  generated a PARALLEL BLACK
MONEY ECONOMY that is almost as big as the “WHITE ECONOMY”, (while  according to some investigative
journalists,it may even be BIGGER than the White Economy!) we SHOULD ALL JOIN
HANDS to use all the DEMOCRATIC MEANS at our DISPOSAL to FIGHT TOOTH and NAIL,
this LAND GRAB bill in its PRESENT AMENDED FORM till all the above mentioned
SAFEGUARDS against BLATANT MISUSE for LIMITLESS CORRUPTION and all the
CONDITIONS that are FAVOURABLE to the ORIGINAL LANDOWNERS / FARMERS that were
in fact there in the 2013 version of this BILL, get REINTRODUCED through FRESH
AMENDMENTS as being DEMANDED by the ENTIRE POLITICAL OPPOSITION of the COUNTRY
through OPEN and TRANSPARENT DEBATES and DISCUSSIONS during the MONSOON SESSION
of the PARLIAMENT!  

FORTHRIGHT
EXPOSE of Land Shark LOBBIED LAND GRAB BILL-Revert it 2 Version 2013! 

FORTHRIGHT EXPOS-Land Shark LOBBIED
LAND GRAB BILL- Revert it 2 Version 2013!

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