PATNA: CPI-ML has decided to make land reforms a major poll agenda in Bihar in the forthcoming assembly election. CM Nitish Kumar sprang a
surprise when he declared that the government would not implement the recommendations of the much publicised Land Reforms Commission report. The commission was headed by a former bureaucrat and an expert on land-related issues D Bandhopadhayay.
"It is shocking that the same government which set up the Land Reforms Commission has now unceremoniously junked the commission's report after sleeping over it for more than a year," said CPI-ML supremo Dipankar Bhattacharya.
He told TOI: "Bihar has been singularly devoid of any bold initiative from the battle of Zamindari abolition to the current debate over minimum recognition of Bataidari rights."
Any government that shies away from this key agenda actually perpetuates social injustice, administrative anarchy and economic stagnation, he said.
To provide proper justice to the sharecroppers, the party has decided to conduct an independent survey of sharecroppers as well as their registration. On the last day of the fourth year of rule of Nitish led government of Bihar on November 24, the party is likely to launch its agitation by observing Bihar bandh call with a call to `Implement Or Quit'.
Experts on land-related issues, including K B Saxena and D Bandhopadhayay, would be mobilized by the party to organize series of meetings in Bihar. To chalk out a sustainable agitation at the grassroot level, the party has convened a two-day meeting at Muzaffarpur commencing on October 31.
The party will bring out a booklet on land reforms in Bihar based on the opinions of political leaders next week. The booklet would be distributed at the grassroot level to generate awareness about the view point of experts and political leaders, said party's Central Committee member Dhirendra Jha.
He told TOI that the book would contain view points of B R Ambedkar, Ram Monohar Lohia, Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan, Karpoori Thakur, Shahajanand Saraswati and B P Mandal Commission report.
"We will also mobilize land-related experts, policy makers and university teachers throughout the country to garner support in favour of sharecroppers' right," Jha said.
"The ruling elite in Patna as well as Delhi, have always been afraid of the `threat' of change, doing everything possible to thwart it," Bhattacharya said.
Way back in 1992, K B Saxena, a Bihar cadre IAS official now retired, had brought out a similar report on land reforms. The report was never studied properly and has now `disappeared' in the corridor of power.
surprise when he declared that the government would not implement the recommendations of the much publicised Land Reforms Commission report. The commission was headed by a former bureaucrat and an expert on land-related issues D Bandhopadhayay.
"It is shocking that the same government which set up the Land Reforms Commission has now unceremoniously junked the commission's report after sleeping over it for more than a year," said CPI-ML supremo Dipankar Bhattacharya.
He told TOI: "Bihar has been singularly devoid of any bold initiative from the battle of Zamindari abolition to the current debate over minimum recognition of Bataidari rights."
Any government that shies away from this key agenda actually perpetuates social injustice, administrative anarchy and economic stagnation, he said.
To provide proper justice to the sharecroppers, the party has decided to conduct an independent survey of sharecroppers as well as their registration. On the last day of the fourth year of rule of Nitish led government of Bihar on November 24, the party is likely to launch its agitation by observing Bihar bandh call with a call to `Implement Or Quit'.
Experts on land-related issues, including K B Saxena and D Bandhopadhayay, would be mobilized by the party to organize series of meetings in Bihar. To chalk out a sustainable agitation at the grassroot level, the party has convened a two-day meeting at Muzaffarpur commencing on October 31.
The party will bring out a booklet on land reforms in Bihar based on the opinions of political leaders next week. The booklet would be distributed at the grassroot level to generate awareness about the view point of experts and political leaders, said party's Central Committee member Dhirendra Jha.
He told TOI that the book would contain view points of B R Ambedkar, Ram Monohar Lohia, Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan, Karpoori Thakur, Shahajanand Saraswati and B P Mandal Commission report.
"We will also mobilize land-related experts, policy makers and university teachers throughout the country to garner support in favour of sharecroppers' right," Jha said.
"The ruling elite in Patna as well as Delhi, have always been afraid of the `threat' of change, doing everything possible to thwart it," Bhattacharya said.
Way back in 1992, K B Saxena, a Bihar cadre IAS official now retired, had brought out a similar report on land reforms. The report was never studied properly and has now `disappeared' in the corridor of power.
Source: Times of India, October 21, 2009
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