Fwd: {KBK OTable} Activists meet Governor on Narayanpatna Issue

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From: Kundan Kumar <kumarkun@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 5:22 PM
Subject: {KBK OTable} Activists meet Governor on Narayanpatna Issue
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Actvists seek protection for Linga
Express News Service
First Published : 07 Dec 2009 08:29:23 AM IST
Last Updated : 07 Dec 2009 09:55:01 AM IST
BHUBANESWAR: With police hot on the trails of Nachika Linga, the Chasi
Mulia Adivasi Sangha (CMAS) head, a delegation led by activist Medha
Patkar today met Governor Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare here to seek
protection for the rebel leader besides restoring crop harvesting
rights to the tribals.
Likening the police action in Narayanpatna to Salwa Judum, the
activists in their memorandum submitted to the Governor stated that
the tribal outfit only enforced what the administration couldn't.
The Regulation 2 of 1956 and an amendment made in 2002 called for the
rights of tribals over their land. Since the government circulars in
this regard failed, the CMAS had to take action on their own by
bringing together political force in the area, the memorandum said,
adding, the move was not acceptable to land grabbers, liquor vendors
and vested interest groups.
Drawing the Governor's attention to recent spate of arrests, Medha and
other members said tribals brought under their control 2,500 acres
from land-grabbers but with police action, they cannot harvest their
crops. Accusing the police of having a nexus, the activists demanded
that harvesting rights must remain with the 30,000 tribals or else
they will face starvation and their food right will be in jeopardy.
The delegation also questioned the manner in which police had been
launching a campaign against Nachika Linga. By circulating posters of
the leader as one of the most wanted, police are presenting him as a
hardcore criminal. ``We are apprehensive that he may be killed in a
fake encounter,'' they said demanding protection for Linga.
The delegation which comprised Prafulla Samantara, Lingaraj, Siva Ram
and Bhala Chandra Sarangi also raised the issue of arrest of Tapan
Mishra, a former councillor who had been branded as a Left extremist.
They demanded that the Tribal Advisory Committee be convened
immediately for discussing the issue of tribal rights in the region.
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