The State secretary of Communist Party of India (Marxist) Kerala state committee,Pinarayi Vijayan has said that the land agitation launched under the aegis of Adivasi Kshema Samithi, a tribal organisation of CPI (M), for the landless tribal people in Wayanad district, will intensify with the support of all the working class organisations in the state.
Inaugurating a land agitation solidarity convention here on Saturday, Mr.Pinarayi assured his party’s full support to the cause.
Mr. Pinarayi said that the agitation started by the AKS in the district was not an encroachment on the private land but it was a struggle of the tribal people for claiming their rights over the land which had been illegally possessed by the wealthy land owners.
The resignation of the Janata Dal party leaders did not influence the CPI (M), he said.
Mr. Pinarayi said the tribal people claimed their right on the land by erecting huts as it was deserved for them and the land owner who possessed the land illegally was not ready to hand over the land to them.
The policy of the CPI (M) and the LDF government was to support the poor and working class people for their fair rights and protect the rights of the common people. No body had the right to posses the illegal property and the directives of the Kerala High Court also clarified it, he added.
When the first Communist party ministry in Kerala was trying to implement the Land Tenancy Act in the state, many affluent land owners tried to keep the excess land in their possession but the law was implemented only after the strong intervention of the people under the aegis of the Left parties.
Mr. Pinarayi said the allegations of the UDF leaders that the LDF government did not provide the land to the tribal people were baseless. Mr. Pinarayi claimed that a lot of policies had been successfully implemented by the LDF government for the welfare of the tribal people.
(Courtesy : The Hindu)
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