Save Lakshadweep from its administrator: Rahul to PM Modi
Despite the pandemic, the administration demolished structures used by the fisherfolk, fired contractual workers in various government departments, and relaxed quarantine norms that led to a lethal strike in Covid cases: Rahul
New Delhi: Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday shot off a letter to Prime Minister Modi, in his capacity as a Lok Sabha MP, to intervene and save the people of Lakshadweep by withdrawing the orders issued unilaterally by its Administrator Praful Khoda Patel without consulting elected representatives or the public.
He referred to the arbitrary policies declared by Patel (64), a BJP leader from Himmatnagar and former Gujarat home minister under then Narendra Modi government, who took over as the administrator of the union territories of Lakshadweep, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu last December, accusing him of undermining the ecological sanctity of the island in the draft Laksha
May 27, 2021
‘The future is threatened by the anti-people policies announced by the administrator’
Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi has requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to withdraw the recent orders issued by Lakshadweep administrator Praful Khoda Patel.
In a letter to Modi, he said the people of Lakshadweep deserve a developmental vision that respects their way of life and reflects their aspiration.
He said the confluence of cultures in the islands have drawn people for generations. The custodians of its heritage seek to safeguard the archipelago for posterity. However, their future is threatened by the anti-people policies announced by the administrator of Lakshadweep, Praful Khoda Patel. The administrator has unilaterally proposed sweeping changes without duly consulting elected representatives or the public. The people of Lakshadweep are protesting against these arbitrary actions, he said in the letter on Thursday.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday sought Prime Minister Narendra Modi s intervention in the withdrawal of new regulations in Lakshadweep, saying the rules seek to penalise dissent and undermine grassroots democracy.
In a letter to the prime minister, he said all this is being done by the new Administrator Praful Khoda Patel in the guise of development and maintaining law and order. I request you to intervene in this matter and ensure that the above-mentioned orders are withdrawn. The people of Lakshadweep deserve a developmental vision that respects their way of life and reflects their aspirations, Gandhi told the prime minister.
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Widespread resentment in Lakshadweep over a slew of bad law proposals
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Draft notification for creation of a Lakshadweep Development Authority unsustainable, socially, politically or ecologically.
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The latest draft regulation for the creation of a Lakshadweep Development Authority (LDA) is widely resented as the people suspect that this might have been issued at the behest of ‘real estate interests’.
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Draft notification for creation of a Lakshadweep Development Authority unsustainable, socially, politically or ecologically.
Discontent is simmering beneath the calm, verdant environs of the Lakshadweep group of islands over a slew of regulations introduced by the new administrator, Praful Khoda Patel in the last five months of his rule, which also saw the archipelago descend from being a ‘COVID-free region’ for nearly a year into one with 6,847 cases until May 24.