Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Orissa Forceful Land Acquisition: Medha Patkar joins anti-POSCO movement in Orissa!

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  | Bhubaneswar, June 21, 2011 | Updated 10:41 IST / Indiatoday.

Medha Patkar
Medha Patkar arrives in Bhubaneswar.

The POSCO project in Orissa has hit a roadblock. Mounting protests forced the government to suspend land acquisition for the steel plant on Monday. The move came on a day activist and Ekta Parishad chief P. V. Rajgopal reached Dhinkia, the epicentre of the anti-Posco movement.
Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar also arrived in Bhubaneswar on Monday on her way to the project area to interact with the protesters and chalk out the movement's future strategy to force the South Korean firm out of the area. "Evicting people against their wishes to help a foreign firm is illegal and unjust. The state government is behaving worse than the British did during the Raj," she said.

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