Article: Kerala opposition asks Achuthanandan to solve Chengara land row

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Thiruvananthapuram, Sept. 26 -- A group of Kerala opposition members Friday met Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan and asked him to resolve the 13-month-old dispute between landless tribals who have occupied a rubber estate in Pathanamthitta district and the plantation workers.

Since August 2007, about 5,000 landless tribals have been staying in tents pitched in the Kumbazha rubber estate of Harrisons Malayalam Ltd (HML) in Chengara, about 120 km from here.

The tribals, who have formed an organisation called the Sadhu Jana Vimocha Samyukta Vedi (SJVSV), are demanding that the government give the land to them. They are ...

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