By Arun Pratap Singh
Haridwar, 31 Dec: The Uttarakhand Maidani Sabha held its meeting at its Shivalik Nagar office here, today, in preparation to launch a counter agitation against the demand for domicile based land laws and reservations in government jobs in Uttarakhand.
The meeting held here today was chaired by the General Secretary of the Sabha, Advocate Rakesh Rajput. At the meeting, Rajput criticised the demand for implementing domicile based land laws in the state with a cut off date of 1950. Rajput declared that teams and committees will be constituted by the Sabha in 37 Assembly Constituencies of the state to launch the agitation against the “unreasonable” demand to implement land laws based on domicile of 1950.
State Vice Chairman MD Sharma added that such a demand for a cut off date of 1950 is a straight attack on the interests of the people of the state who belong to the plains. Sharma asserted that, in case such a law comes into force in Uttarakhand, it will be totally against the interest of the people of the plains and will take away their fundamental rights.
State Secretary Surendra Thakur asserted that Uttarakhand is a beautiful state and everyone should come forward to take it forward and contribute to its development. Politics and efforts to divide the people of the hills and the plains under the pretext of this 1950 cut-off based domicile driven land laws should not be encouraged as it is totally unnecessary.
The meeting was also attended amongst others by Rajeev Deshwal, CP Singh, Ashok Upadhyay, Sachin Gujjar, Pankaj Bhati, Mangala Prasad Mishra, Satish Kumar and Beena Kishore.
