Stopping Land Grabbing
Govt not fulfilling poll pledges: Dr Kamal
The government is not implementing its election promise of protecting people's land from encroachment, although it came to power with their mandate through the 2008 parliamentary elections, Dr Kamal Hossain said yesterday.
Land grabbers are encroaching lands of poor people including the slum dwellers through forged documents, but no effective measures are taken against such offenses, he said.
He told a discussion organised by Khilkhet Nagorik Samaj (KNS), a social organisation of people of Kilkhet area in Dhaka, at BMA auditorium in the capital.
It organised the programme demanding the government stop its acquisition of land at Barua Mouja in Khilkhet area on behalf of Police Officials Multipurpose Cooperatives (POMC).
Dr Kamal said the Awami League led grand alliance in its election manifesto had promised to execute the constitutional provisions of protecting the peoples' lands and habitations, but the government is not executing this promise on behalf of poor people.
Mahmudur Rahman Manna, convener of Nagorik Oikya, also spoke.
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