Aryadan Shoukath receives the tribal leader of Binda Vailassery when he visited tribal families on Tuesday, which are on mixing in front of the collector in Malappuram. | Photo Credit: Sakeer Hussain
Nilamburk’s newly elected MLA Aryadan Shoukath met with distinctive tribal families in front of the district collector on Tuesday and expressed solidarity with them.
Up to 60 tribal families from various villages in Nilambur here before 20. May, he protests against the alleged inability of the district administration to protest against his promise of 50 cents of land for families, agitation.
Mr. Shoukath spoke with the distinctive tribal leader of Bind Vailassery and the advice for agitation of the stem agitation Grow Grow Vasu and assured them about his intervention and support like MLA Nilambur.
Mr. Shoukath said that tribal families protest for the real thing and that the government turned their backs on them. The ongoing agitation was in the continuation of 314-day hunger, which in 2009 organized in front of the Integrated Tribal Development Project (ITDP) in Nilambur in 2023-24 and demanded one acro, as ordered by the Supreme Court in 2009.
This strike was dismissed on 18 March 2024 after assurance on the land district collector VR Vinod, who assured them in writing that within six months each 50 cents will be given to 60 families. Despite the repeated reminders and the processes of tribal families, however, the district administration could not maintain its word.
Mrs. Vailassery and others continued to agitate in front of the collector on May 20, after the district authorities reportedly failed to maintain their word.
Published – June 24, 2025 9:29
