MP Yaduveer Wadiyar
He announced a planned protest on Sept 11 against the report and the draft notification on C and D lands. Somwarpet Raita Horata Samithi president Suresh Chakravathy strongly opposed the report, warning it threatens farmers’ livelihoods. Coorg Planters’ Association (CPA) president Nanda Beliappa submitted a memorandum advocating methodical, state-specific demarcation using physical verification. The CPA urged authorities to constrain the ESA strictly within marked forest boundaries.
A logical end should be devised so that such a notification is not issued again. Former MLA MP Appachchu Ranjan said, “In the past, an agitation was launched in Kodagu.
MLC MP Suja Kushalappa said the people’s representatives of the ruling party should have come to the meeting. We had protested against the Kasturirangan report even when the BJP govt was in the state. Rejecting the report every time will not solve the problem.
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