Don’t give communal colour to Lakshadweep protests: Islanders
The trials and tribulations of the residents of Lakshadweep rarely find place in the media as they live away from the mainland.
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A fishing boat which was damaged in the Cyclone Tauktae that hit the island last week. The fishermen couldn’t move the boat to safety as the island administration has demolished their sheds.
Express News Service
KOCHI: The support they enjoy on social media platforms for the #SaveLakshadweep campaign has come as a pleasant surprise to the residents of the archipelago. On April 28, the island administration razed the sheds built by fishermen along the coastline to keep their boats and fishing gear safe
The Draft Lakshadweep Development Authority Regulation, 2021 (LDAR 2021), has drawn flak from all quarters for not only being autocratic but also for endangering the islands cultural heritage and delicate ecosystem in the name of development.
The discontent among the people of the Lakshadweep islands in the last few months over a bunch of administrative and policy measures unilaterally adopted by Praful Khoda Patel, the Union Territory’s n