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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Anti-Posco outfit chief takes on BJD RS member by Ashis Senapati

Anti-Posco outfit chief takes on BJD RS member by Ashis Senapati

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published Published on Aug 9, 2011   modified Modified on Aug 9, 2011

The Posco Pratirodhaka Sangram Samiti (PPSS) president slammed BJD Rajya Sabha member Baishnab Parida on Saturday for commenting in the Parliament on Friday that large numbers of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh were hand-in-glove with anti-land acquisition leaders to oppose the proposed steel plant construction in the seaside villages of Jagatsinghpur district.

"Not a single Bangladeshi is residing in three gram panchayats of Dhinkia, Gadakujang and Nuagaon areas," said PPSS president Abhaya Sahoo. "Parida was earlier opposing Posco when he was the state president of Samajvadi Party. But he is now supporting the steel plant project of Posco with an ulterior motive to toe the line of BJD," Sahoo said.

Parida had said in Rajya Sabha during a debate on a private member's bill on illegal immigration on Friday that many illegal immigrants from Bangladesh managed to become voters and they are playing a major role in local elections.


"Many Bengali speaking persons have been living since time immemorial in Polanga, Bhuiapla, Nuagan, Dhinkia and other villagers. But the BJD leader is trying to level them as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh," Sahoo said.


It may be mentioned here, five years ago the state government had issued 'Quit India' notices to 1,551 suspected Bangladeshis in the neighbouring Kendrapada district.

Dhinkia, Nuagan and Gadakujang gram panchayat areas will become the Waterloo for chief minister Naveen Patnaik's ruling BJD if Naveen tries to acquire farm land at these places at gunpoint for Posco's proposed steel plant, Sahoo warned.

"Earlier, Saxena committee and Meena Gupta committees in their reports stated that the state government violated Forest Right Act in these areas. We are hell bent not to give an inch of our land to establish a steel plant by Posco. Anti-Posco villagers have already formed human chains in Gobindapur and Nuagaon to prevent the entry of officials," Sahoo reminded.

In the past, the state government had acquired thousands of acres of land to establish port, fertiliser plant, oil refinery, hotels and many industries in the port town Paradip and its neighbouring areas.

But a large number of displaced people were betrayed by the government and sundry companies, due to which the villagers are now not in a mood to give an inch of land to Posco, Sahoo reiterated.

The Times of India, 7 August, 2011, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhubaneswar/Anti-Posco-outfit-chief-takes-on-BJD-RS-member/articleshow/9520928.cms


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