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The Congress connected Tuesday (June 2, 2026) alleged that Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh governments person constituted task forces to "institutionalise" the RSS relation successful the implementation of PESA, 1996 and FRA, 2006, and said these "subvert" the basal antiauthoritarian operation of implementation of the 2 laws.
Congress person Jairam Ramesh besides claimed that Odisha volition soon beryllium the 3rd State to represent specified task forces.
He alleged that the indispensable quality of Panchayat (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996 and the Forest Rights Act, 2006 successful missive and tone is being deliberately sabotaged by specified task forces which person enforcement responsibilities arsenic well.
"The Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh governments person constituted Task Forces to institutionalise the RSS relation successful the implementation of the Panchayat (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996 and the Forest Rights Act, 2006. Odisha volition soon beryllium the 3rd authorities to bash so," Mr. Ramesh said connected X.
"These Task Forces subvert the basal antiauthoritarian operation of implementation of these 2 laws passed by Parliament. The Akhil Bharatiya Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram, an RSS-affiliate is the driving unit down this hijacking of statutory provisions particularly those relating to the relation of the Gram Sabha," the Congress person said.
"Both PESA, 1996 and FRA, 2006 emerged retired of people's movements. Their indispensable quality successful missive and tone is being deliberately sabotaged by specified Task Forces which person enforcement responsibilities arsenic well," helium alleged.
It is not a coincidence that 1 interaction of the task forces volition beryllium felt successful the exploitation of affluent earthy resources with small respect to ecological considerations successful wood areas by mining companies of whom the astir salient volition beryllium the "Modani empire", Mr. Ramesh said.
