nicobar project among biggest scams of green property: rahul
New Delhi, April 30 -- Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday alleged that the Great Nicobar development project at Campbell Bay in Andaman and Nicobar Islands was "one of the biggest scams and largest thefts of Indian ecological property".
Stating the project would entail axing of millions of trees, and calling it a "destruction dressed in development's language", Gandhi said he would raise the issue in Parliament.
In a social media post, Gandhi said, "I travelled throughout Great Nicobar today...The people on this island are equally beautiful -- both the Adivasi communities and the settlers -- but they are being robbed of what is rightfully theirs."
"The government calls what it is doing here a 'project'. What I have seen is not a project. It is millions of trees marked for the axe. It is 160 sq km of rainforest condemned to die. It is communities that have been ignored while their homes have been snatched away. This is not development. This is destruction dressed in development's language," he said.
"What is being done in Great Nicobar is one of the biggest scams and gravest crimes against this country's natural and tribal heritage in our lifetime. It must be stopped. And it can be stopped -- if Indians choose to see what I have seen," Gandhi added....
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