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Kalinganagar tribals vow to continue stir against displacement

BHUBANESWAR: Thousands of tribals from Kalinganagar and those opposing various industries and mining in different parts of Orissa on Wednesday pledged to continue their agitation against project-induced displacement.

Participating in a Mahasamavesh organised by the Bisthapan Virodhi Jamnanch at Kalinganagar on the second anniversary of the police firing, they also vowed to continue their struggle to protect their land and livelihood sources.

The representatives of various organisations that were opposing POSCO steel plant and captive port projects in Jagatsinghpur district, Vedanta alumina refinery project at Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district, Mittal steel project in Keonjhar and mining in Khandadhar region participated in the meeting.

The leaders of the farmers’ movement against diversion of water from Hirakud reservoir also took part in the rally. The representatives of those opposing displacement at Nandigram and Singur in West Bengal also participated.

The leaders, who addressed the rally, also strongly opposed the Special Economic Zone Act. They also expressed solidarity with the anti-POSCO agitation, and demanded that the State Government should stop facilitating the steel project of the Korean company over the land located in Dhinkia, Gadakujanga and Nuagaon gram panchayats of Jagatsinghpur.

If the POSCO project was not shelved immediately, they threatened to launch a countrywide agitation against both the State government and the Centre.

They called upon the people to strengthen their resistance movements in every location where their land and livelihoods were being snatched away in the name of anti-people industrialisation, SEZs or any other project that was against the peoples’ interests.

Earlier, the tribals came in a rally from the site where 13 tribals were killed in police firing while opposing construction of a boundary wall for the proposed Tata steel project on January 2, 2006.

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