CADC BJP Sit-in-Protest against the CADC (Land & Revenue) Rules, 2019

Kamalanagar | August 27, 2019:  The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of Chakma Autonomous District Council has organised a sit-in-demonstration in front of the Secretariat office on Tuesday  protesting against the Chakma Autonomous District Council (Land & Revenues) Rules, 2019. A copy of the Rules has been burnt into ashes as a mark of protest. 

The existing Executive Committee of CADC has recently passed the CADC (Land & Revenue) Rules, 2019 on August 21 during the Monsoon Session of CADC with 17 votes in favour and 7 votes in against the Rules. Shri Durjyo Dhan Chakma, Executive Member of Land Revenue & Settlement of CADC has moved the Rules.

All seven opposition BJP MDCs voted against the said  Rules. 

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) found the new CADC (Land and Revenue) Rules, 2019 to be contradictory and forsee it as a big threat for the permanent residents of Chakma Autonomous District Council. 

Earlier, there was no Land lease and ceiling provision in the CADC Land Revenue & Settlement Act, 2002 under which the Autonomous Council's lands are protected and acted as a  safeguard to the Sixth Schedule areas of Autonomous Council.

There are some provisions in the new CADC (Land & Revenue) Rules, 2019 which are against the interest of the residents of Chakma Autonomous District Council and the CADC BJP see the new Rules as a policy of the existing Executive Committee of CADC to snatch away the lands of common people.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of Chakma Autonomous District Council oppose and has come down heavily on the CADC (Land and Revenue) Rules, 2019 and demands for immediate removal of Land lease and ceiling provisions from the  new rules.

The Bharatiya Janata Party has also raised the issue against the mass felling of Teak Plantation of Rajmandal by the existing Executive Committee of CADC for the purpose of exporting the logs of teak to Bangladesh which is an illegal cross border trade and smuggling of forest products.