Anti Reliance SEZ Panchayat meet in Gurgaon

July 14, 2008 · Filed Under Reliance Industries 
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FARMERS FROM five villages near Gurgaon – Khandsa, Narsingpur, Mohammedpur, Gadauli Khurd and Harsaru - are opposing the transfer of 1,395 acres of land to Reliance Industries by Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Corporation (HSIIDC) for setting up a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in the region. Farmers have been up in arms against SEZ to be set up over an area of 25,000 acre from Garhi Harsuru to Badli at the Farrukhnagar-Jhajjar Road. The proposed Kundli-Manesar-Palwal expressway is also to pass through the same area. The total proposed investment is about $30 billion with more than 10,000 acre for ’infrastructure, residential, leisure and entertainment and commercial establishment’ with only 6500 acre outlined for industries.


After visiting the affected areas on July 8, 2008, Janhastakshep: Campaign against Fascist designs team Ish Mishra, Sachin and Ramesh went to Panchayat on July 13, 2008 called by Haryana Kisan Mazdoor Bhoomi Bachao Sangharsh Samiti. For many villagers, the situation remained the same since June 30, the police barricades have only been partially removed causing great inconvenience to the villagers, creating a curfew like situation. The heavy police presence was creating a general sense of fear among the villagers. At Harsaru village, there were heavy earth moving machinery, cranes and work for construction of the wall continued amidst heavy presence of private security guards and the police prevented the villagers from using the public road. The police cases against 33 people who are leaders or farmers protesting the SEZ were also still in force.

Captain Satvir Singh said that such dialogues with the administration were of no use just as it was pointless to blindly follow laws, which were solely created and enforced by a small section of the Indian ruling class to further their own interests. He strongly felt that this Panchayat meet should not have been held in Gurgaon, but at the site itself where Reliance was constructing its wall. He stressed that this government was bent on using the armed might of the state to work as a broker for corporate houses and the only way to make them listen is by speaking to them in the only language they understand - people’s power. He stated that the only path was for a militant farmers resistance. He warned the people from trusting the ruling class parties which might even come out in support, keeping their votes in mind, but would eventually carry on the same anti-people polices once in power. He urged them to overcome their fear of the police and of being arrested and come out in huge numbers and prevent any further construction by Reliance Industries.

Ish Mishra of Delhi University spoke about the ongoing peasant struggles in other parts of India such as Nandigram, Singur, Kalinganagar, POSCO and Raigarh and the similarity of the attack by corporates on peasantry across the country and how through militant struggles people have been able to protect their lands. He also reminded and warned the gathering about the tales of lies and deception of the ruling class parties such as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which had promised to ’throw Enron and World Trade Organisation (WTO) into the ocean’ after coming to power, but did just the reverse and would do the same with the farmers. Mishra also spoke about how the current political parties are increasingly forfeiting our sovereignty, forgetting about the needs of their own people, while slavishly furthering the interests of America and other developed nations.
Source: merinews.com

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