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‘Bring back lapsed land acquisition Bill'

Neena Vyas

NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party has demanded that the lapsed Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill, 2009 be re-introduced in the Lok Sabha as the law will resolve a number of issues arising from government acquiring land for public purposes.

The Bill was introduced in the last Lok Sabha, but there was not enough time to get it through after a standing committee gave its report.

After raising the issue in Parliament, the former BJP president, Rajnath Singh, on Monday afternoon rushed to Tappal in Aligarh district, where he met protesting farmers who are demanding a higher compensation for their land acquired for the Yamuna Expressway project. He said the Uttar Pradesh government seemed to have been casual in ordering the police to fire at the unarmed peasants at Jiggar.

The police action, in which three farmers were killed, was “barbaric.” As the inquiry ordered by the Mayawati government would take time to finalise its report, the guilty should be punished and the victims' families given adequate compensation on the basis of a preliminary inquiry, Mr. Singh suggested.

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