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 Voters retaliate with boycott [1]

Denied rights, aggrieved citizens abstain from voting

having lost their means to earn a living, communities are increasingly using their vote to drive home the message they distrust the State. Tribals who lost their agricultural land in a forest area because of faulty implementation of forest rights laws in Maharashtra are as peeved as fishers in the Tamil Nadu-Andhra Pradesh border who are not allowed to go to sea each time the country celebrates a satellite launch. In West Bengal tribals debarred the police from entering their territory saying they were being highhanded.

People belonging to the Pawra tribe in Chopda taluka of Maharashtra

Publication Date: 
14/05/2009
Down to Earth [2]
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Forests [3], Lakes [4], Fisheries [5], Forest Rights Act 2006 [6], Tribals [7], Governance And Institutions [8], Governance [9], Political Parties [10], Panchayats [11], NGO [12], Politics [13], India [14], Andhra Pradesh [15], West Bengal [16], Medinipur (D) [17], Naxalites [18]

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