BJP to stage two-day sit-in from June 14 against JSW land sale
Team Udayavani, Jun 12, 2019, 4:58 PM IST
Bengaluru: The Bharatiya Janata Party will stage a two-day sit-in from June 14 against the sale of 3,667 acres of land to the JSW Steel in Ballari, the party’s Karnataka unit chief B S Yeddyurappa said on Wednesday.
The protest is also to highlight the “insensitivity” of the Congress-JDS coalition government towards the prevailing drought in the State, he told reporters here.
Welcoming the state government’s stand to revisit the decision on allotment of land to JSW Steel, he said a survey of the land was required.
“It is a welcome decision that the government intends to revisit the allotment of land to the JSW Steel (at Vijayanagar in Ballari district). However, there is a need to identify the presence of iron ore in that land with the help of a geologist and create a document about it”, he added.
The BJP chief claimed that the parcel of land government intends to sell was not an ordinary one because it was iron ore-rich land worth crores of rupees.
He emphasised on bringing the facts to the notice of the state’s people after a detailed survey with the help of a geologist.
Caught in a row over the controversial land deal, Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy on Tuesday said the government’s decision on the sale of 3,667 acres to JSW Steel will be reconsidered and placed before the cabinet once again for discussion.
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