Agrarian crisis in the country is because of the “wrong policies” of the Modi-led Central government; the Land Acquisition Bill will be a disaster and it will harm food security of the nation, according to general secretary of All India Kisan Sabha Hannan Mollah.
Addressing a farmers’ seminar on ‘Land Acquisition Bill,’ here on Sunday, he said that many a good points in the Bill proposed by the previous UPA government were removed in the new Bill tabled by the Modi government.
Earlier, farmers’ consent was necessary before acquiring land and they had the right to approach court. Cultivable land, irrigated land and multi-crop land could not be acquired.
Moreover, if the acquired land was not utilised by the government in five years, the land could be returned to the farmers. But the Modi government removed these beneficial features in order to favour big companies, he said.
