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Kathmandu Tuesday October 02, 2001 Ashwin 16, 2058.
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NKM burns copies of Land Bill
KATHMANDU, Oct 1 (PR)- A group of activists of Nepal Kisan
Manch (NKM), a sister organisation of Nepal Sadbhawana Party (NSP) today burned copies of
the proposed Land Reforms Bill at the Sigha Durbar premise claiming the Bill to be
"tyrannical".
Bhogendra Thakur, the central committee member of NSP, said
the prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba introduced the bill in a "Junga Bahadur Rana
style", without thinking about the negative impact it would make on poor farmers.
"The tyrannical bill is just a conspiracy to ruin the
lives of the farmers who have been working in their farms since long," he said.
An appeal distributed at the function urges the government to
implement ceiling of property too. "Land is that type of property for the farmers,
just like the mansions and vehicles of the new rich class of people."
It states that on one hand the economic condition of the
Terai farmers have been deteriorating day by day and on the other, a new rich class of
people have been emerging overnight who have become billionaires and own imported cars.
The organisers said similar programmes were organised in
several Terai districts.
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