Even though the State government hasn’t decided about land pooling or land acquisition for the purpose of building State capital, the farmers took a serious note of ‘veiled threat’ of the government.
The farmers umbrella bodies have shot back at the clearly comprehensible tone and tenor of the Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu that the government would opt for land acquisition in case farmers did not agree for land pooling.
It may be recalled that Mr. Naidu on Thursday said that a clear picture on extent of land required for Capital city would emerge once the master plan was in place. Construction of capital should be beneficial to both farmers and the government.
“It is up to the farmers to choose between land pooling and land acquisition. If they don’t agree for pooling, we will go for acquisition,” Mr. Naidu said.
Irked over it, the farmers in Guntur district are gearing up to move court if the government went ahead with land acquisition proposal.
CPI (M) affiliated Rythu Sangham president J. Siva Sankar says, “We do not have faith in the proposed 60:40 development model in which a farmer holding an acre of land hardly gets 1,000 square yard. We are not sure where the government is allotting land and more importantly, the question of alternative livelihood is causing sleepless nights to farmers.”
