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Qatl ki Raat - Watchout Tomorrow « Kafila — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:55:21 +0000

[...] struggle and its supporters. This time too, when J Devika posted the Panchami Dalit Women’s Collective’s statement, we had at least one such intruder coming in to ’set the record straight’. I quote two [...]

By: satish

satish — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:44:11 +0000

The articles are completely baseless and to me it seems some work of imagination of people sitting in far flung places who are being influenced by disinformation emanating from here which is purposeful and eludes reality.Let me clarify some points
1 Chengara in not govt land nor the govt has claim on any area of the estate
2 this is a purely private property Of Harrisons malayalam limited and has been in existence for last 100 years.This was partly a tea estate and later became a rubber property.
3 Generations of workers and their families have worked in this estate and this is the only income of these families
4 Most of the workers (90%) are not in posession of land but are dependent on the estate for livelihood.
5 This forceful intrusion into a private property is the first and foremost violation of fundamental right of life and property as enshrined in the constitution.
6 This has not effected the govt in any way but has only resulted in loss of occupation and employment to these employees for the last one year.
7 There is not an inch of excess land in Chengara as clearly spelt out in the Laluk landboard proceedings of the government.
8 There is no Govt lease on the property and this is a property with proper title and deed.
9 Private party leases if any have no significance after the introduction of land reforms act in kerala and these earstwhile zamindars dispossed of their land are one of the forces behing the agitation .
10 This is being lead by a so called leader who retired from govt service few years ago as a 4th grade employee and today he owns acres of land ,vehicles.This is his development.
11 To some extend people are attracted by false claims of distribution of land and they come here and once they are inside cannot leave the place.Their Ration cards are taken away,voter card too and they are left to the mercy of the goons of this brigand Lahai Gopalan.
12 The law of the land does not prevail in this area.Ganja cultivation,illicit liquor and all immmoral activities are taking place in this area under the guise of this agitation.2 unnatural deaths of women has taken place in this area which people claim to be as a result of molestation etc but this has been hushed up.All records af theft,ganja seizures are avaailable at local police station.
13 Ramphant slaughter and theft of rubber is taking place.There is a well established cartel for selling of this illegal produce.Share from every sale goes to his highness Lahai gopalan.
14 There are other forces behind the agitation who are financing this operation for last one year.Just imagine 2500 people being fed for last 1 year.There is a well organised land mafia which has managed to put forth some small religious luminaries to give sanctity to this operation.
15 Most of the people are not aware of the true face of this agitation.
16 This agitation has taken a different turn as the workers,their dependents and the whole community which was awaiting some sort of govt intervention and judicial solution became restless as no initiatives seem to be comming.
17 The turning point was the miscalculation by the so called leader when he ordered furthur encroachment into another 100 hectartes of the estate which was thawted by the workers.Already 150 workers and their families are badly effected due to this agitation.
18 Trade unions understand that this is a challenge to the very survival of an organised industry which has been the source of livelihood of millions in kerala and they cannot be mute spectators to this .
There is not an iota of untruth in what has been written.This is the true face of Chengara.I only wrote this to make people aware that such a wide campaign of disinformation is being spread by vested interests.I appeal to the so called human right activists to understand the real face of this agitation and not to jump into this without understanding of the real ground situations.
The deprived workers and marginalised sections effected by this agitation are also human beings whose plight has not been captured by the intellligensia.
This is not right for land but purely a land grab agitation and trasgression into an industrial undertaking which will not go on for ever.People have started to realise the true face of this agitation and it is just a matter of time that so called intelligensia will realise how some few people can get togeather,connive and weave a story ,publish it and built upon it a revolutionary tinge and a movement which is purely a militant operation which cannot sustain .People of kerala do read the news,internet but are not ones to be completely bought by these adventurisms.

By: subid

subid — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 05:32:16 +0000

solidarity.

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