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UP Elections: After 70 Years, Farmers in Mirzapur Lose Land Lease -Tarique Anwar

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On May 24, 2021, poor tribal peasants were shocked when they got an executive order informing them that the period of land leases given to them in Sirsi Dam foothills was over on March 31, and renewal stood cancelled.

Mirzapur (Uttar Pradesh): Talking about tribals and farmers in present day Mirzapur means inviting gloomy stories weaved into everyday sorrows and sufferings. Gone are the days when the areas inhabited by them were a picture of thriving green fields, contented people, flora, fauna and spectacular water falls. What is left now is a trail of deprivation. The transition to this state is not very old, but painful.

In the name of providing drinking water to households in Mirzapur, Sonbhadra and Prayagraj (formerly Allahabad), a mountain of troubles has befallen lakhs of people of about 200 villages in the water-starved Vindhyachal, which is going to polls on March 7 in the last phase of the ongoing Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections.

After being driven out decades ego from their natural habitat in the fertile foothills of the Sirsi Dam, where they used to grow wheat, mustard and vegetables since Independence, these farmers — a majority of them are adivasis (inhabitants of the Indian sub-continent) belonging to the Kol tribe --are no longer being allotted pattas (land lease) for agricultural farming.

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