LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Thursday announced her government’s new policy for acquisition of land from farmers and, calling it ‘historic’ and ‘the best in the country’, asked the Congress-led UPA Government at the Centre to follow the same for the whole country.
She said her party and the government would pressure the Centre to introduce the amended land acquisition policy in the next session of Parliament.
Mayawati said her government was the first in the country to formulate a land acquisition policy after taking inputs from the representatives of farmers from all over the state, who had been invited to air their views directly to her in front of her ministers and officers.
According to her Cabinet Secretary Shashank Shekhar Singh who faced the media, after the Chief Minister had read out the policy statement, to clarify any points raised by them, Mayawati had come to announce the new policy while the farmers’ representatives were having their lunch. He added that talks with the farmers’ representatives could continue late into the night and if any new development emerged, it would be announced later.
Mayawati said the new policy would be effective from Thursday itself, but would not apply to those who had already taken the compensation agreed to with the state government, reiterating her government’s known stand that incidents like Bhatta-Parsaul were not liked to any compensation issue but were a result of vested interests among the Opposition parties being bent upon creating law and order problem.
She added that the state government would take care of repair and restoration of properties damaged during the violence at Bhatta-Parsaul.
The Chief Minister said she had issued instructions to the officers concerned to solve the problems of farmers during her meeting with their representatives and would do the same during the second session of talks.
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