Ab Kuan kahega Jay Kisan!!!!!

Our late prime minister Chaudhary Charan Singh, while addressing the nation announced Jay Kisan! He said the farmers are the backbone of this country. If Chaudhary Sahab, were present today he could have died by reading the plight of the poor farmers in his home state, who are facing greatest challenge in the history of independent India. All of us know that our forefathers, residing in the great Indo-Gangetic plan, came under attacks from the invaders, crusaders on several occasion through the history. While invaders form central Asia like Changes khan and Nadir Shah robbed, looted and crushed innocent people of this region, Mughls ruled, converted them forcefully for hundreds of year. Afterwards the Britishers captured the power in this region. Every invader, ruler and even dictator imposed their rules but none of them did what the government of Uttar Pradesh is doing in the most populous state of the largest democracy of the world. It took steps which can make farming in the gangatic plan the part of history. It is going to kill farmers and ruined the agriculture. Today, farmers in five district of Uttar Pradesh are struggling to save the their livelihood, identity and the life line of this country that is agriculture. Their land is being acquired by the state administration forcefully and their protests have crushed and voice is not heard anywhere.
This all started few months back when government of UP came out with a notification to acquire land in five districts namely; Gautam Buddha Nagar, Bulandshahar, Mathura, Aligarh, Mahamayanagar and Agra. The land in these districts is higly fertile and even small farmers take at least three crops round the year. That land is being acquired in the name of the development and public interest. State government has started a mega project Yamuna Expressway (formarly as Taj expressway) which is a 6 lane and expandable 8 lane highway passing through above mentioned districts and connecting Noida to Agra. This is a PPP project and have been awarded to a privet company. In pursuance of that privet company had acquired the one Kilomer streach of land from Noida to Agra and work on the road in progress very fast. Now Government of have came out with a notification recently that says that it will acquire more land in the five districts which fall in the way of this road projects. The BSP Government argues that it, while awarding the PPP project has committed to give Land Parcels free of cost to the Privet company so the expressway project becomes commercially viable.

Now government without getting the consent of farmers acquiring thousands of acre land for a privet company. Interestingly government has given the the documents of the land to the Jaypee group though the land is still in possession of farmers. Despite this the company has came out a advertisement claiming to make a housing complex there and also got some loan from the banks in the name of that.
Now farmers are protesting but their voice is not heard so far. They approached various level of courts also, individually and jointly. Allahabad high court has stayed the land acquisition but local administration is not executing the stay. It mounting pressure on the farmers to sign the agreement for land sale. Local bodies representatives like Gram Pradan, Block Pramukh or even Anganwadi staff are also pressurizing the helpless farmers.
We appeal and invite you for visit the area and writing about the plight of poor farmers.