Land Owners’ Union (LOU) NH-29 (Purana Bazaar-Chümoükedima) expressed dismay over how certain individuals and organisations viewed the compensation issue as a very “unreasonable demand”.
In a press release LOU president K Vishepu Assumi and general secretary Vichosel Rhutso, said the union wanted to know whether it was for the first time that landowners raised the issue of compensation, and whether the landowners of entire Nagaland also forfeited the compensation issue. Demanding to know what was “so gross” in seeking compensation when the landowners involved were willing to accommodate the government’s requirement by moving out of their comfort zone, LOU wanted to know whether the words “rehabilitation, displacement and resettlement” ever made sense to such individuals and organisations?.
LOU also said those individuals who were most vocal on the issue ought to think twice before “blabbering”, if it involved their plots. The union further expressed dismay on how “certain vested individuals and organisations” talk of magnanimity, benignity and renunciation, without considering the plight of the landowners involved. LOU pointed out that the affected landowners also included a widow.