CPI(Maoist) Condemns Police Action Against Farmers in Lagacherla Over Pharma City Project
The banned CPI (Maoist) Telangana State Committee strongly condemned the recent police action against farmers in Lagacherla village of Kodangal constituency. The move has drawn much attention among people as the farmers in this place have been protesting the Pharma City project proposed by the government, which they claim will grab away their agricultural land.
The government has made a brazen attempt to dispossess peasants of their land and natural resources, opined CPI(Maoist) Telangana State Committee spokesperson, writing in a letter. Jagan accused the Congress-led Telangana government for taking possession of agricultural lands at Lagacherla for the Pharma City project, which will impact the local farming community to a great extent.
Protest by farmers at Lagacherla, one of the most fertile villages of the district, demanding that police forces be withdrawn from there so that they could resume their lives as usual. They say that Pharma City would displace them from their land and would undermine their way of life. CPI (Maoist), which also provides leadership to the agitation against the project has termed the action by police as nakedly oppressive attempt to suppress dissent.
The protesters claim that the government's initiative of building Pharma City is a big industrial development project, while degrading the environment and snatching away ancestral lands of the farmers. The CPI(Maoist) party has clarified that this is a project that sees corporate benefits rather than the well-being of the local people.
In the letter, the Maoist representative attacks the present ruling government for trying to threaten and gag farmers with police action for raising their voice in public in opposition to the Pharma City project. On the contrary, it diagnoses that the aim behind this action is part of a larger agenda to acquire natural resources like land and water for industrial exploitation.
It warns that the struggle at Lagacherla will not stop and calls the farmers and local people to be steadfast against the intentions of the government. Though the Telangana government has remained tight-lipped regarding criticism of the issue, it continues to create flame-throwing protests and tensions in the region.
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