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Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan’s connection successful the Assembly that the State authorities volition supply onshore and houses to 7 Scheduled Caste (SC) families facing imaginable eviction astatine Pariyathukavu, a Dalit colony astatine Malayidamthuruth adjacent Kizhakkambalam, has not gone down good with the affected families and the Pariyathukavu Samara Samithi spearheading their agitation.
CPI(M) territory enactment besides slammed the statement. Mr. Satheesan’s connection came successful effect to a calling attraction question by Kunnathunadu MLA V.P. Sajeendran. The Kerala High Court had past period granted the State authorities 2 weeks’ clip to find a solution and comply with the Supreme Court bid to evict the 7 families astatine Pariyathukavu. The eviction bid was issued by the Supreme Court 4 years agone successful favour of a backstage idiosyncratic successful a onshore quality involving 2.62 acres allegedly falling wrong 19.98 acres of puramboke land. The High Court has posted the lawsuit for proceeding connected June 9.
“The determination to assistance onshore and houses has travel retired of the blue, without the cognition of the affected families oregon the Samara Samithi. Granting a fewer cents to the families was an enactment disposable to the erstwhile authorities arsenic well. Our presumption each on has been that the contentious 19.98 acres should beryllium measured and, if recovered to beryllium authorities puramboke land, rubric deeds should beryllium issued to the families who person been residing determination for generations,” said K.M. Siraj, convener of Pariyathukavu Samara Samithi.
The determination appears to beryllium an effort to backtrack from the government’s earlier assurance to measurement the onshore to find whether it was puramboke onshore oregon belonged to the backstage idiosyncratic who had gone to tribunal claiming ownership. Mr. Sajeendran had publically opposed the determination to measurement the onshore earlier the Assembly election. However, the determination yet rests with the families concerned. The Samithi volition not entity to them benefiting from the government’s offer, if that is what they desire, Mr. Siraj added.
P.T. Saji, a subordinate of 1 of the 7 affected families, said determination was nary question of moving retired of their land. “A committedness to measurement the onshore to ascertain whether it was puramboke onshore was initially fixed to america by Minister Roji M. John erstwhile a gathering was convened by the District Collector to sermon the matter. Later, a akin assurance was besides fixed by K.A. Thulasi, Minister for the Welfare of Scheduled Castes, erstwhile she visited the families,” helium said.
CPI(M) territory caput S. Satish said the Chief Minister had claimed that the affected families had agreed to the government’s assurance of providing onshore and constructing houses for their rehabilitation. However, the families support that they person not accepted rehabilitation. “In the lack of immoderate specified discussions with the families, the Chief Minister has lied successful the Assembly. This amounts to protecting the onshore mafia and deceiving the Dalit families,” Mr. Satish said.
He asserted that Dalit families, who person settled determination for generations, volition not beryllium allowed to beryllium evicted. “It is unbecoming of the Chief Minister to marque statements that mislead the public. People volition spot done it. The CPI(M) volition stay steadfast with the families until they person ownership of the land,” Mr. Satish added.
