National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM) has demanded that the capital of the newly formed Andhra Pradesh should be built mainly on Government lands and on lands which are not under cultivation. It demanded that lands on which multiple crops were gown should be exempted from the Capital region.
Addressing a Media meet at NSS here today, NAPM State Convenor B Ramakrishnam Raju, State President of Jana Chaitanya Vedia V Lakshamana Reddy and environmentalist Dr M Babu Rao said that prominent social worker Medha Patkar will visit the proposed Capital region villages where multiple crops are grown on April 9 and acquaint herself with the situation of the farmers there. Same day evening she would address a public meeting at Penumaka village, where former Minister for Agriculture Vadde Sobhanadreeswara Rao, local MLA Ramakrishna Reddy and other leaders of people’s organizations would speak.
They said that the A P Government should give back the lands taken from farmers under threats, if they ask for the same. They also said that concentration of all offices and power at one place, that too in a developed area, might result in regional imbalance and regional agitations. They demanded the Centre to give up attempts to re-promulgate the 2013 Land Acquisition Ordinance, which aims at taking away the rights of farmers, tenants and farm workers. (NSS)
