Suspend land acquisition, says Sharad Yadav

May 09, 2011 02:50 am | Updated August 21, 2016 05:01 pm IST - NEW DELHI:

Agra: Villagers set fire on a generator during their agitation against land acquisition for Yamuna Express Highway, at Etmadpur in Agra on Sunday. PTI Photo(PTI5_8_2011_000108B)

Agra: Villagers set fire on a generator during their agitation against land acquisition for Yamuna Express Highway, at Etmadpur in Agra on Sunday. PTI Photo(PTI5_8_2011_000108B)

As violence continues to rock Uttar Pradesh with the farmers clashing with the police and agitating against the State government's decision to acquire their land, Janata Dal (United) president Sharad Yadav has urged Chief Minister Mayawati to suspend land acquisition till Parliament enacted a new law to sort out such issues.

Mr. Yadav, who is also the convenor of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), told journalists here on Sunday that the State government was “hand in glove with the land mafia.” Not only in Greater Noida (in U.P. near Delhi) where the farmers were agitating, there was a nationwide resentment against land acquisition being carried out on the basis of an outdated legislation. He sought a CBI probe into the violence in Greater Noida.

He warned that the way farm land was being acquired, it would soon threaten the country's food security.

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