All India Bank Employees Association , AIBEA has decided to oppose Land Reform Bill of Bhartiya Janta Party BJP led NDA government .They say that it is anti-farmers and anti poor . AIBEA is meant for welfare of bank employees and entire leftists are meant mainly for welfare of working class. Unfortunately they could do nothing satisfactory for employees for last five decades.
Even wage hike for bank employees could not match to expectation of bank employees and the pathetic agreement which took place during last four-five settlements have brought the status of bank staff down from High Wage Islanders to Bottom Wage Earners in India. Unions which could not protect bank staff should not dream of protecting the interest of farmers .
Dirty political campaign has been launched by frustrated political parties like Congress Party , RJD, SP, BSP, JDU against ruling party BJP at centre is purely due to their humiliating defeat in last election for Parliament and for some State Assemblies. These selfish parties are not at all worried for farmers or for poor villages. They want to malign BJP and dethrone BJP from power and nothing else. They could nothing for poor though remained in power for six decades in the name of poor and downtrodden. Entire politics of Congress Party was on poverty but poverty in India has instead of decreasing has increased during their rule. Entire politics of RJD, SP, BSP and JDU was for poor farmers, but farming was crushed in the state of Bihar .Obviously opposition to land bill blindly is neither in the interest of political parties in opposition camps nor good for farmers and Indians as a whole.
AIBEA as such should not try to avoid maligning the good work of the government at least now . If they are really pro-farmers, they should seek the opinion of at least 100 farmers in any village then say what is good and what is bad . They should stop blindly opposing the land bill and suggest what course of action is needed for making the bill better and for suggest ways for easy ,comfortable , hassle free and pro-farmers course of action for acquiring land growing infrastructure, for affordable homes for common men, for power generation projects and for defence and rail projects. Opposition parties are opposing Land Bill for the sake of opposition without suggesting best course of action .
Why AIBEA think it better to follow their line of action blindly ?
Is it beneficial for bank staff too?
Do they want to add fuel to fire in the country as media men are doing ?
Do they feel , media men or AIBEA , that Land Acquisition act passed by Congress Party led UPA government at the fag end of their rule is pro-farmer and pro growth?
Do they feel that any growth can take place under provisions of land bill passed by previous government?
Do they think that status of farmers will improve if their land remains barren due to poverty? Ninety of percent of so called farmers are engaged in labour works or migrating to town and cities for getting unskilled jobs. Land of such farmers is not used for years and decades. If such unused land is acquired by government for development of many public welfare projects , what is harm in it?
Government does not want to stop farming and should not acquire land which is used for farming until it is unavoidable , say it comes in way of rail projects or defence projects or rural housing schemes. One must make effort to compensate such farmers with alternate farming land and with adequate monetary help.
I therefore urge AIBEA leaders ,Please do not copy the media propaganda or Congress party dirty politics saying that the Land bill is pro-corporate and anti -farmers.
In India several colleges of higher education is opened only by rich people acquiring farmer's land or residential land only and the same is now useful for sons and daughters of all Indians including that of farmers, traders, and corporates. So far as corporate and rich class people are concerned they can send their wards to foreign countries , they can buy hundreds of homes at any cost, they can go to foreign countries for treatment and so on. In India so many nursing homes are opened by corporate houses and the same may be on farmer's land at some places but the same are used by families of farmers also. It should also be kept in mind that government run schools, colleges, hospitals and public sector undertakings did not yield desired results and hence need of private participation became the need of the hour to have public private competition.
Ninety percent of land are owned by farmers in India and they become very happy when railways or Airlines, any industrial projects announce their arrival in their area. As soon as it is known to villagers that government is going to acquire land for power plant or for developing hospital or any big industry , it opens many opportunity for villagers including farmers. Even if any corporate house decides to start an industry in any village , cost of land in that village rise many times and poor farmers become rich overnight without doing any real business and they get immense other benefits when any industry comes in their area.
But all these require land if any growth has to take place in their area. If all big projects are allowed only in towns and cities, people will cry against pollution and over crowding in town. Not only this , same leftists will then say that the government is not taking care of poor villagers life and accuse government of forcing villagers , farmers and poor people to migrate from village to towns and cities
It happened in West Bengal in recent past which did not allow corporate to enter in West Bengal . It is the state of West Bengal where left parties ruled for more than three decades and where Industrial relation was disturbed every now and then in the name of employees welfare. As a consequence many business houses shifted their business to other states like Gujarat and Maharashtra .Many lost jobs in West Bengal and many opportunities for job were lost due to dirty politics by left parties during seventies, eighties and nineties. and also in 21s century .
Even Mamta Banerjee a leader of common men did not permit Tata for Nano project and which resulted in loss to Bengalis in many aspects including job opportunities. Now the same Mamta is searching corporate houses and inviting them in WB for industrialisation . Jyoti Basu realised after thirty years of rule that his government committed blunder by not supporting corporate and business houses to do business in west Bengal and by failing to make environment conducive for industrial growth. In the same states like Bihar, Jharkhand, Orrisa are backward in many respects and this is undoubtedly due to dirty politics of regional parties and that of Congress Party. Now people of these states which includes farmers, students, patients have to go to other states for better life.
I therefore urge AIBEA, media men, and all opposing parties stop their dirty politics against BJP and start thinking what is really good for farmers as well as for growth.
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