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State accused of siding with breakaway group of CMAS
Staff Reporter
BHUBANESWAR: All India Khet Mazdoor Kisan Sabha (AIKMKS) here on Friday alleged that administration was siding with a breakaway group of Chasi Mulia Advasi Sangh (CMAS) to dilute the land struggle in Koraput district.
Addressing a press conference here, AIKMKS convenor Subodh Mitra said according to law, tribal land could not be transferred to non-tribals, but the entire fertile valley lands of Narayanpatna and Bandhugaon block were under occupation and enjoyment of non-tribal moneylenders.
He alleged that the breakaway group led by Lachika Linga and Gananath Patro had resorted to violent means with active support of government at Narayanpatna block.
“Patro took to narrow national chauvinism. He has succeeded to divert a few hundred advasis into his paranoid programme and is resorting to violent attach on the CMAS and the poor non-adivasis and adivasi people in the movement,” Mr. Mitra said
AIKMKS leaders alleged that administration instead of trying to resolve the issue through war-footing land reforms was indulged in dividing policies.
“A real peace can be restored only when the entire agriculture land in the area – valley land and pody land is legally allotted to adivasis and eligible non-adivasi poor,” CMAS leader Pydamma said.
The AIKMKS, which claimed that CMAS was affiliated to it, demanded that measures should be initiated to resettle the landless non-adivasis who had been living there for decades by providing a maximum of one hectare of cultivable land to each family.
It further demanded all welfare schemes should immediately be implemented in tribal areas.
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