Accuses MLA Sivadasan Nair of patronising ‘land
grabbers’
: The Communist Party of India (CPI) has accused
Aranmula MLA K. Sivadasan Nair of patronising ‘land-grabbers’ who illegally
converted a vast expanse of paddy fields, and encroached upon natural streams
and government land in the name of a private airport project at Aranmula.
In a statement issued here on Wednesday, P.
Prasad, CPI district secretary, alleged that Mr. Sivadasan Nair’s loud
statement in strong support of the controversial private airport project in
Aranmula exposed his “arrogance and intolerance” of public sentiments and the
mass movement against the airport project.
Against people
The CPI leader said Mr. Nair, being an elected
representative of the people, should not have taken a stand against the
interests of the people because of whom he came to power.
The MLA’s statement that nobody could stop him
from supporting the private party, connected to the airport project, and its
illegal activities in Aranmula was nothing short of challenging the democratic
system of governance, Mr Prasad alleged.
Mr Prasad said the CPI had taken it as a social
and political responsibility of the party to oppose such anti-people and
anti-democratic policies.
Ample room
He said people’s representatives should not
simply sideline the fact that democracy gave enough room for expressing,
dissenting as well as agreeing notes on various issues concerning the people
and the State.
Mr. Prasad said it was sheer ignorance of Mr.
Sivadasan Nair to make such a statement that the CPI had no right to oppose the
private airport project in Aranmula.
The MLA should not forget that it was the CPI
that had strongly opposed the illegal conversion of paddy fields in Aranmula by
a private party during the United Democratic Front government in 2003-04, he
added.
The CPI district secretary alleged that the
entire paddy land conversion in Aranmula was carried out when the UDF was in
power.
Mr. Prasad also said CPI ministers had never
given any sort of clearance or support to paddy field conversion or any other
illegal activity in Aranmula.
LDF’s role
Though the previous Left Democratic Front (LDF)
government had given an in-principle clearance for the proposed airport project
in Aranmula, it had categorically mentioned that it should be strictly in
compliance with the prevailing laws of the land.
The notification issued by the Principal Secretary
to Industries Department, declaring 500 acres of land in Aranmula,
Mallappuzhassery, and Kidangannur as industrial area in February, 2011, was not
with the approval of the State Cabinet, the CPI leader said.
Mr Prasad alleged that the baseless arguments
and insinuating references issued by Mr. Sivadasan Nair against the CPI and its
leaders were aimed at appeasing the KGS Aranmula International Airport Company
and its patrons in Delhi.
Strong opposition
The CPI district secretary said Mr. Sivadasan
Nair should not simply sideline the crucial fact that the Legislature Committee
on Environment had strongly opposed the proposed private airport project,.
It had also condemned the illegal paddy field
conversion and violation of laws, in Aranmula.
· The MLA had said nobody could
stop him from supporting the private party
· His statement smacks of
arrogance and intolerance, says CPI
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