Kharagpur, (West Bengal) : Claiming that India under the Narendra Modi government was going through a phase worse than the emergency period, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday asserted that her government will not implement the proposed amendments in the Land Acquisition Act.
Banerjee, also the Trinamool Congress chief, urged the people to burn the “black ordinance” that was Monday approved by the Modi cabinet to amend the Land Acquisition Act to remove “procedural difficulties” in acquiring land for national projects and to “further strengthen” provisions concerning “affected families”, reports IANS.
“This government is bulldozing democracy across the country.
The Narendra Modi government has created a situation that is worse than the emergency period,” said Banerjee addressing a public meeting at the Kharagpur College Ground here.
“The centre is amending the Land Acquisition Act which will allow them to snatch away your land at gun point. But I throw this challenge to them. So long as I am alive I will never allow any forcible acquisition of land. They will have to acquire land only on my dead body,” she said.
The Trinamool supremo who spearheaded the Save Farmland movement in Hooghly district’s Singur that eventually catapulted her to power in West Bengal, called for burning the “black ordinance”.
