Four people, including two policemen, were killed in an exchange of gunfire between farmers protesting land acquisition and the police in Bhatta Parsaul in Uttar Pradesh.Whole of Uttar Pradesh is burning . The agitation in Greater Noida may have stopped but the anger is still simmering among residents of Bhatta Parsaul. Villagers are extremely unhappy with the role of the local administration, which allegedly first tortured them and has now deputed teams of doctors to provide free treatment to those injured. Locals allege the measures were taken after two days of the initiation of violence, when other political parties started building pressure.
The National Human Rights Commission, which has received complaints of human rights violations in the Bhatta Parsaul village in Greater Noida, will send an investigative team to the village.The farmers in the village are agitating for higher compensation for land taken for constructing the 156-km Yamuna Expressway, which will link New Delhi with Agra and reduce travel time by an hour.
Rahul Gandhi, who reached the village on a motorcycle in the early hours without informing the UP government, sat on dharna at the village for 19 hours before being arrested and then released have said to have build a huge winning platform for INC ,his party, in Uttar Pradesh for the upcoming legislative assembly elections.
The National Human Rights Commission, which has received complaints of human rights violations in the Bhatta Parsaul village in Greater Noida, will send an investigative team to the village.The farmers in the village are agitating for higher compensation for land taken for constructing the 156-km Yamuna Expressway, which will link New Delhi with Agra and reduce travel time by an hour.
Rahul Gandhi, who reached the village on a motorcycle in the early hours without informing the UP government, sat on dharna at the village for 19 hours before being arrested and then released have said to have build a huge winning platform for INC ,his party, in Uttar Pradesh for the upcoming legislative assembly elections.
A day after Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi was arrested and subsequently released for staging dramatic a sit-in in support of farmers in Bhatta-Parsaul village in Greater Noida, the epicentre of protests for higher compensation for land acquired for a highways project, the volatile issue of compensation for farmland gained centrestage.As the debate intensified and unrest continued, Home Minister P. Chidambaram stepped in to promise a new land acquisition law for better compensation and rehabilitation to farmers in the next session of parliament in July.
In an unprecedented move the BJP MP Varun Gandhi has said "No politics should be seen into Rahul's dharna at Parsaul village. This is a fight of farmers and all politicians - barring BSP - cutting across party lines, including BJP leaders Rajnath Singh and Kalraj Mishra have extended their support to the farmers' cause," he told reporters here ,Slamming the Mayawati government for police firing on farmers, Varun said the days of BSP government in UP were numbered.
A clearly piqued Mayawati also hit out at Congress president Sonia Gandhi for turning a blind eye to what she termed 'inadequate compensation' paid to farmers in her own parliamentary constituency Rae Bareli, where agricultural land was acquired for a rail coach factory.
In the row of alligations on each other there are some major issues which should be raised keeping the political interest aside Land acquisition act to be amended .Proper compensation paid and rehabilitation to be done .
