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The MP said the JPC president is holding meetings with all stakeholders and he also meets farmers from Belagavi and Vijayapura. He said the JPC is actively meeting with all stakeholders to understand all aspects of the existing law and the proposed amendments. We will also meet the farmers of Vijayapura and Belagavi next time.
Political temperature rose in Karnataka on Thursday after Joint Parliamentary Committee Chairperson Jagadambika Pal visited Hubli to meet protesting farmers. He met the protesting farmers at the invitation of BJP MP Tejashwi Surya, who was also with him today. Farmers in particular are protesting as they claim that their land was designated as Waqf Board property without any prior notice or due process. After meeting farmers in Hubli, Pal said the fact-finding report would be presented in the upcoming winter session of Parliament.
Surya said I joined JPC president Jagdambika Pal in Hubli to meet local farmer delegations who are adversely affected by the recent claims of the Waqf Board on their ancestral lands. Furthermore, the BJP MP said that the JPC president is holding meetings with all stakeholders and he also meets farmers from Belagavi and Vijayapura. He said the JPC is actively meeting with all stakeholders to understand all aspects of the existing law and the proposed amendments. We will also meet the farmers of Vijayapura and Belagavi next time.
Meanwhile, Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar targeted the BJP, terming the JPC president’s visit as a political drama. HD also said that according to the Constitution, land is a state matter and JPC has no role in it. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had started this (sending notices) in 2019, but the Karnataka government is committed and will not change any record, he said, adding that they may have come for their political purpose. .
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