Chandīgarh: To overcome the food shortage in the country, the then United Punjab government had taken a decision to take 20-year leases of land in the forest-dwelling lands of the state, including Guhla-Pehwa, between about 1950 and 1955. These leases were given mostly to displaced people from Pakistan and adjacent areas. The tenants made that uninhabited, wild and rugged land arable, with their hard work, they produced food and obtained a part of the country’s granary, with which they fed their families. Tenant farmers also built their own shelters, tube wells and electrical connections on their own.
After the creation of the state of Haryana in 1966, due to the change in the political situation here, a mountain of sorrows began to fall on the tenants. In the previous Bansi Lal government and the governments of Om Prakash Chautala and Bhupendra Singh Hooda, they started committing atrocities against the tenants. Therefore, as a form of protest, the tenants organized themselves and began to fight for their rights. In the initial phase, All India Kisan Sabha supported the tenants. The tenant farmers protested against their demands from the Chandigarh governments, including the sub-divisional and Deputy Commissioner level, which were supported by local leaders including former MLA Comrade Harpal Singh. Even though the Hooda government issued three notifications to hand over land on 99-year lease, till date not a single tenant has been given any 99-year lease, but the extent of the atrocities committed by the Hooda government on the tenants in Karah Saheev Kupiyan village of Pehwa Halka in Kurukshetra district. It came when electricity and water were also cut off for those people.
When on demand of time some tenant farmers Harpal Singh urged Cheeka that we will fight our battle under his leadership. This happened again in the year 2013-14. He started the movement by forming the Pehwa-Guhla Abadkar Pattadar Sangharsh Committee under the leadership of Harpal Singh and organized a large meeting at Gurudwara Karah Sahib Kupiyan against the government under the leadership of former Rajya Sabha MP Trilochan Singh, former MP Prem Singh Chandumajra, SGPC Amritsar. and other social leaders by putting pressure, he got justice for the people, he got electricity and water and then from time to time he talked to the government and resolved all the problems with the government of Manohar Lal ji Khattar. Giving suggestions for a permanent solution, the government did a good job by purchasing residential land worth Rs 6 crore from the Panchayat and handing it over to the tenant farmers. Encouraged by this decision of the government, the tenant farmers also held talks with the government from time to time for a permanent solution to agricultural land and Manohar Lal Khattar issued a notification to meet the demand for property rights. Therefore, now the present Naib Singh Saini government has given it legal status by introducing the bill in the assembly session. All the friends of Abadkar Kisan Kalyan Samiti thank the Naib Singh Saini government.
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