Activist Dayamani Barla likely to contest LS on AAP ticket Jharkhand Ranchi Dayamani Barla, award-winning tribal activist and journalist, is likely to contest Lok Sabha election on an Aam Admi Party (AAP) ticket, party leaders said on Saturday. She is likely to contest the elections from Khunti. Between 2000 and 2003, Ms. Barla had led tribal villagers in protesting against displacement from Koel Karo dam in Khunti and later, led a successful movement against setting up of Arcelor Mittals plant over 11,000 acres farmland in Khunti and Gumla. Dayamani Barla had met AAP leaders in Delhi earlier in February. Party leaders said the central leadership of the party in Delhi is likely to make her candidature public soon. On Saturday, she was in Bokaro to participate in the partys election campaign meeting. “We discussed issues of corruption, criminalization and hereditary succession in politics, as well as issues related to peoples access to natural resources, displacement, the poor implementation of special tenancy acts such as Chotanagpur Tenancy Act as well as PESA,” said Ms. Barla. The party has announced a “jharoo yatra” in the state to raise awareness on corruption in the state. Between October and December 2012, Ms. Barla was in jail in Ranchi after the Jharkhand government accused her in a 2006-case and issued a property warrant against her for leading a demonstration demanding MGNREGS job cards for villagers in the Angada in Ranchi, and for leading a farmers’ protest in Nagri village in August 2012.
Posted on: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 05:29:06 +0000