Orissa Gov Accuses Anti-Posco Protestors Of Forgery

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First published in Sanctuary Asia, Vol. 31 No. 4, April 2011

 

In a report forwarded by the Orissa government to the environment minister Jairam Ramesh, Narayana Jena, collector of Jagatsinghpur district, question the integrity and character of the leaders of the protestors.

 

“The Palli Sabha resolutions are not passed [according to due process] but must have been manufactured at a later stage with an ulterior motive," he said.

 

Jena said a team had visited the offices of the different Panchayat bodies, trying to find records of the resolutions that the Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS) claims two Panchayats in the area passed. Read the full report here.

 

Source: by Deepti Rajan, Real Time News India.

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