Centre legally cannot privatise steel plant, says Jana Sena
The Hindu
‘26,000 acres acquired for a public purpose cannot be alienated for other purposes’
The government legally cannot privatise Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP) as 26,000 acres of land, acquired by the then State government for a public purpose, cannot be alienated for other purposes as per Section 3 (f) IV of the Land Acquisition Act, Jana Sena Party (JSP) general secretary T. Sivasankar has said.
Addressing the media along with JSP Political Affairs Committee (PAC) Member Kona Tata Rao and JSP general secretary Bolisetty Satyanarayana here on Friday, Mr. Sivasankar said that 7,000 displaced persons (R cardholders) were yet to get jobs in the steel plant.
Senior BJP leader and former Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan on Saturday (November 23, 2024) said the landslide victory of the Mahayuti alliance in the Maharashtra Assembly election was historic, and that it reflected people’s mindset across the country. She added that the DMK would be unseated from power in the 2026 Assembly election in Tamil Nadu and that the BJP would be the reason for it.