India, June 10 -- Hundreds of farmers and residents of 124 villages across Uran, Panvel and Pen have taken a collective oath not to surrender even "an inch of land" for the proposed Karnala-Sai-Chirner (KSC) New Town, or Third Mumbai, declaring that they would resist the project through legal, democratic and public means.

The resolution was adopted at a convention organised by the MMRDA KSC Navnagar Virodhi Samiti on Tuesday at the historic Chirner Jungle Satyagraha Hutatma Smarak, where participants raised slogans such as "Our land, our rights, our future" and "The land belongs to us, not to anyone's father".

Organisers said the venue was deliberately chosen to evoke the legacy of the 1930 Chirner Jungle Satyagraha, portraying the move...