All party meet opposes forced land acquisition for Navy depot

Leaders of assorted governmental parties and people’s organisations person made it wide that they are not opposed to the projected Navy Ordnance Depot, but volition defy immoderate effort astatine forced onshore acquisition. They extended solidarity to residents of villages apt to beryllium affected by the project.

A roundtable gathering was held present connected Sunday to deliberate connected the connection to get onshore betwixt Bodigudem and Mangapatidevipeta villages successful Koyyalagudem mandal successful Eluru district.

Presiding implicit the meeting, CPI(M) Eluru territory caput A. Ravi said the authorities had initially projected the depot adjacent Vankavarigudem successful Jeelugumilli mandal, but shifted the determination pursuing stiff absorption from section residents. He alleged that contempt reported assurances from Navy officials that operation would not proceed without nationalist consent, the State authorities was pressing up with the acquisition process.

Former Kaikaluru MLA and YSRCP territory president Doolam Nageswara Rao said his enactment was not against the task per se, but firmly opposed compulsory acquisition of fertile cultivation land. He suggested that the authorities research the anticipation of utilising vacant authorities onshore oregon barren tracts instead.

Leaders of the CPI and CPI(ML) New Democracy said that nether the 2013 Land Acquisition Act, consent of the Gram Sabha is mandatory. They cautioned that acquisition of two-crop fertile onshore would severely impact the livelihoods of farmers and reiterated their enactment to the ongoing agitation by farmers and villagers against forced acquisition.