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Subject: LS: Medha Patkar arrested in Bombay
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Medha Patkar arrested in Bombay
National Alliance of People's Movement national
convenor Medha Patkar was Wednesday arrested
when she along with 300 project-affected people
activists, tried to defy prohibitory orders in south
Bombay, and march to the Vidhan Bhavan, police said.
Patkar has been to taken to an unknown destination by
the police, NAPM activists claimed.
Leaders from constituent parties of the ruling
Democratic Front, including Mrinal Gore (Janata
Dal-S) and Prakash Reddy
(Communist Party of India) participated in the
demonstration, they said.
Earlier, the activists staged a protest, as part of a week-long demonstration
against 'anti-people' projects of the government and emanded that
every project undertaken by the state government be people-oriented
and eco-friendly.
At the protest, Patkar said the government should
involve people in every project.
''The projects are meant for people and people cannot be
removed from the projects,'' she said, adding, ''this is an awareness
programme for those in power and also to expose the hollowness of the
rehabilitation policies that remain only on paper.''
A week-long awareness programme on the World Trade
Organisation agreement is also planned from March 16 and the
programme will be moving to different parts of the city, she added.
PTI
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