Pro-CPI(M)Adivasi outfit calls off land stir
The four-month-old land right agitation led by the outfit in Kerala's Wayanad was called off today following talks held by Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan
By PTI |
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The four-month-old land right agitation led by Pro-CPI(M)tribal oufit Adivasi Kshema Samiti in Kerala's Wayanad was called off today following talks held by Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan the leaders of the struggle.
During the talks with Adivsi Kshema Samithi leaders in Thrissur, the Chief Minister assured that the process of distributing land to all landless tribal families would be completed in three months.
He also assured them that effective measures would be taken to retrieve vast stretches of tribal land alienated over decades including those encroached and held in possession by planters and landloards.
CPI (M) Wayanad district secretary C K Saseendran and MLA from North Wayanad K C Kunnhiraman, who led the stir, told reporters that the struggle was being called off in view of the Chief Minister's assurance.
Paving the way for a settlement to the struggle,Achuthanandan had two days back called upon the agitators to end the stir. The appeal was made in view of the deadline set by Kerala High Court to evict the triabal agitators from the lands they had encroached as part of the struggle in parts of Wayanad in north Kerala set to expire this month end.
The tribal agitators had encroached and set up camps in two estates in the district since the struggle started four months back.
The hilly Wayanad district has largest concentration of tribal population in Kerala.
The Government had refrained from using force to evict the encroachers considering the political sensitivity involved in the issue.
During the talks with Adivsi Kshema Samithi leaders in Thrissur, the Chief Minister assured that the process of distributing land to all landless tribal families would be completed in three months.
He also assured them that effective measures would be taken to retrieve vast stretches of tribal land alienated over decades including those encroached and held in possession by planters and landloards.
CPI (M) Wayanad district secretary C K Saseendran and MLA from North Wayanad K C Kunnhiraman, who led the stir, told reporters that the struggle was being called off in view of the Chief Minister's assurance.
Paving the way for a settlement to the struggle,Achuthanandan had two days back called upon the agitators to end the stir. The appeal was made in view of the deadline set by Kerala High Court to evict the triabal agitators from the lands they had encroached as part of the struggle in parts of Wayanad in north Kerala set to expire this month end.
The tribal agitators had encroached and set up camps in two estates in the district since the struggle started four months back.
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The hilly Wayanad district has largest concentration of tribal population in Kerala.
The Government had refrained from using force to evict the encroachers considering the political sensitivity involved in the issue.
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