Statesman News Service
MALDA, Jan. 17: Hundreds of farmers led by local BJP leaders blocked the National Highway-34 near Baishnabnagar police station today for more than two-and-a-half hours, bringing vehicular traffic to a standstill. The farmers demanded the authorities either compensate them adequately or return their farmlands that had been acquired by the Farakka Barage Project and railway authorities among others. They alleged that work had started only a portion of the entire land acquired and that the rest had been put to no use. The farmers also said that touts who had got the plots registered in their names, had cheated them out of compensation. The claim of the farmers has been substantiated by the SP of Baishnabnagar police station. The block development officer of Kaliachak III rushed to the spot and promised the agitating farmers to talk to the district magistrate and get the matter sorted out. The BDO also said that he would ask the authorities to survey the acquired land and submit a report on the current status of its use. Locals have been requesting political leaders, including the former Congress MLA for Kaliachak and Malda MP Mr AH Khan Choudhury, as well as CPI-M MLA Mr Biswanath Ghosh to intervene. After being elected from the first time from Kaliachak, Mr Ghosh had taken the initiative to resolve the matter but is yet to find a solution to it.
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