Raj Wants Only ‘Sons of Soil’ to Have Land under Irrigation: Report

MNS chief Raj Thackeray has decided to hit the streets of Maharashtra for a new state law which will prevent a non-Maharashtrian from possessing any land under irrigation, reported Indian Express.

The newspaper reported that Thackeray has stated this in a letter written on Marathi Language Day on February 27 and a copy of the letter is with the newspaper.

In the letter, Thackeray said that following the ‘successful agitations’ for conducting railway examinations in Marathi and making taxi-drivers learn Marathi, he and his party have decided to press for a legislation which will ensure that land under irrigation is not given to a non-Maharashtrian, said report.

Report said that his letter to party leaders in Mumbai would be distributed to the public on Saturday.

“Apart from the ongoing Marathi language agitation, my party will begin a new agitation to ensure that land under irrigation is given only to Maharashtrians. The Maharashtra government should pass a resolution to this effect,” Thackeray stated in the letter, report said.

Going a step further, he even said that existing non-Maharashtrian land holders should be compelled to have Maharashtrian partners, said report.

“Those non-Maharashtrians who have bought land in the state in the past will now have to have Maharashtrian partners and stakeholders. The legislation should be applicable to all previous transactions as well,” he wrote.