RAUTAHAT, FEBRUARY 25
Locals have cast doubts over the role of political parties in connection with sale of land owned by Gaur Rice and Flours Mills by the land mafias in Rautahat.
The mills had come into operation with Indian Bajaj group's 49 per cent and Nepali owners' 49 per cent share at five bigha, 19 kathha and 15 dhur land owned by the mills in 2003. The mill was shut in 2015 due to various reasons. Ever since the land was used by locals as playground. The playground is being used for organising political and religious gatherings these days.
Cadres of the then CPN-Maoist and Forum had clashed at the mills resulting into Gaur carnage. Silence on the part of political parties has made locals to suspect the parties and their leaders' nexus with land mafias for its sale unlawfully.
Local Ravi Mishra said that land mafias were trying o sell the mills' land in collusion with parties and their leaders.
Locals submitted a memorandum to the DAO demanding that all people, especially party cadres and leaders, abetting land mafias be booked.
Gaur Municipality-3 ward Chair Shyam Sundar Patel said that they had filed the written complaint against all people identified as all documents made to sell the land were fake.
A version of this article appears in the print on February 26, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.
