Farmers and apple growers from throughout Himachal Pradesh converged on Shimla, marched to the Himachal Pradesh Meeting to protest in opposition to ongoing evictions and demand land regularization.
Himachal Kisan Sabha and Seb Utpadak Sangh stage a protest at Chaura Medan, Shimla, on Thursday. (Deepak Sansta/ HT)
The demonstration, organized by the Himachal Kisan Sabha and Apple Producers Affiliation, noticed an enormous turnout, with contributors carrying banners and placards highlighting their grievances. They held a rally at Ambedkar Chowk, Shimla after a procession from Panchayat Bhawan.
The farmers’ calls for included a keep on all evictions till a bigger bench is constituted by the Supreme Court docket to deal with the complexities of land possession and forest classifications. In addition they demanded the rejection of the 1952 notification classifying all wastelands as forests, the availability of land to landless farmers and people affected by pure calamities, and the regularization of nautod land. Additional calls for included truthful compensation for acquired land, decision of pending land possession circumstances, and the availability of livelihood assist for roadside distributors.
Former MLA Rakesh Singha, condemned the evictions as unlawful, citing Supreme Court docket rulings that deemed such actions with out correct orders and due course of as a violation of pure justice. He highlighted the plight of residents whose homes, even these constructed on Nautod land, have been being sealed with out correct demarcation.
Kisan Sabha State President Dr Kuldeep Singh Tanwar, criticized the federal government’s land acquisition practices for growth tasks, alleging non-compliance with the Proper to Truthful Compensation and Transparency in Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013.
The rally concluded with a name for additional protests on the sub-division, block, and tehsil ranges on April 28, 2025.
Govt to guard farmers from displacement at any value: CM
Chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu went to protest web site and addressed the rally. He assured the protesters to contemplate their calls for sympathetically. Former MLA Rakesh Singha submitted a memorandum to the CM on behalf of Kisan Sabha.
Sukhu mentioned that making certain the welfare of farmers and orchardists was the precedence of the current state authorities and wouldn’t be displaced beneath any circumstance.