Ullal: Members of the Bharatiya Kisan Sangh held a demonstration urging the removal of Ravindra Rajeev Naik, the development officer of Munnar gram panchayat. He is alleged to have sold valuable trees on government land and the protestors demand his absence from the gram sabha.
At the Munnar village community hall, Bharatiya Kisan Sangh members conducted a protest during the gram sabha gathering. They insisted on keeping PDO Ravindra, who was seated on the platform, away from the assembly. The Ullal police intervened to deter the protestors from chanting slogans. The continuous Kisan Sangh participants remained seated on the floor throughout the gram sabha, expressing their dissent in a quiet demonstration.
H R Eshwar, the South Zone Block Education Officer and the designated nodal officer during the gram sabha, recommended that senior officials within the protesting group file an official complaint concerning the matter, emphasizing their pursuit of justice. Local social advocate Premachandra Shetty noted that in July of the previous year, PDO Ravindra and a member of the gram panchayat had felled trees amounting to Rs 40 lakh from government-owned land within the village boundaries, under the guise of development, and subsequently sold them.
Forest authorities have lodged an FIR against the PDO and submitted a chargesheet to the court. Ravindra, currently out on bail, is reportedly spreading misleading information about the case being dismissed in the High Court. The individual involved should face consequences for the tree sale incident, and we are prepared to take the matter to the Supreme Court,” he remarked.
Residential Property on 2.5 Cents of Government Land Within the panchayat, a fee ranging from Rs 30,000 to Rs 40,000 is being requested from builders for assigning door numbers and 60,000 for title deed issuance. Numerous such requests are being claimed, he asserted, accusing the process of misconduct.
