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The Ajjoor Village Welfare Association person stated that residents of the colony program to signifier a protestation by choosing the “None of the Above” (NOTA) enactment during polls aboriginal this year.
The villagers are protesting against the decisions of the High Court and the Forest Department to evict them from astir 300 acres of onshore which has been encroached connected by the villagers.
In a statement, the relation said that contempt aggregate petitions being raised for grievance redress, RTI petitions being filed, that determination was nary administrative volition to lick the issues plaguing the section residents. The relation said the territory medication had failed to instrumentality a tribunal bid that was passed successful 2017 by the Madurai seat of the Madras High Court. They said an RTI effect received successful 2025 besides showed that the survey numbers which person been notified arsenic reserve wood were colony grazing lands, they claimed.
The relation claimed that the residents had impervious of residence successful the signifier of pattas, taxation receipts, arsenic good arsenic receipts for outgo of energy and h2o bills. They said that immoderate plans to evict them from their lands were a usurpation of basal quality rights of the community.
To protestation the deficiency of enactment successful solving the issue, the Association said that they had taken a corporate determination by not voting for immoderate party. The residents volition take the NOTA enactment during the 2026 elections, they announced.
“This is not an predetermination boycott, and is not against democracy. This is simply a soundless protestation against administrative negligence,” they said successful a connection released to the property and to the Election Commission of India.
