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Sakrama will only help the rich: JD(U)

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Voicing opposition: Members of Janata Dal (United) led by B. Somashekar staging a protest against Akrama-Sakrama scheme in Bangalore on Friday.

Bangalore: President of the State unit of the Janata Dal (United) B. Somashekhar has alleged that the Janata Dal (Secular)-Bharatiya Janata Party coalition Government has implemented the Akrama-Sakrama scheme only to regularise the illegal lands, buildings and residential sites possessed by the land mafia, rich land owners, influential politicians and their family members.

Addressing party workers who observed dharna in front of the Mahatma Gandhi statue here on Friday, Mr. Somashekhar said the scheme was enforced during the early hours of the Assembly session held at Belgaum without discussion.

Any house, building and residential site regularised under the scheme would create confusion as the applicable yardsticks to the scheme were bound to contradict with the existing Revenue and Cooperative Acts, he said.

The fee charged for the regularisation was burdensome for the middle class and the poor. It would render the poor poorer and poorer bankrupt as such people would be forced to borrow money from banks and other sources, Mr. Somashekhar added.

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