The Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] on Monday took out a march to the forest office under the banner of Chinnakkanal Land Protection Movement against the State government’s decision to declare 364.39 hectares of revenue land at Chinnakkanal, near Munnar, in Idukki as reserve forest.
Inaugurating the march, Udumbanchola MLA M.M. Mani said the CPI(M) and the people would not allow to convert the revenue land into reserve forest. “If the forest officials go ahead with the process, the people will decide if the forest officials should be allowed to enter public area,” said Mr. Mani.
Devikulam MLA A. Raja, CPI(M) district secretariat member Shylaja Surendran, CPI(M) Santhanpara area secretary N.P. Sunil Kumar, Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) member A.K. Mani, Chinnakkanal grama panchayat president N.M. Sreekumar, and Santhanpara grama panchayat president Liju Varghese, among others, attended the protest march.