The battles are same... Narmada, Nandigram, Lalgarh: Medha Patkar
New Delhi: There is no end to the struggle to save pieces of "our land and the people who live on them, own them and till them", says social activist and the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) pioneer Medha Patkar. "It is all the same...Narmada, Singur, Nandigram and Lalgarh. The police come in khaki uniform, commit excesses and people suffer. But when it happened in Bengal, I found it difficult to believe. This cannot be possible in a state ruled by the Left Front government, I thought," Patkar, 54, who has helped set up the National Alliance of People's Movement, said.
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Image: Social activist Medha Patkar addresses a press conference against the Indian government's effort to pass the current version of Land Acquisition (amendment) Bill and the Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill in parliament, in New Delhi on Wednesday, July 15, 2009.
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