Jharkhand Elections 2024: Why the citizens of Jharkhand are worried about Khatiyan?| Exclusive Chat

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As voting begins across 43 seats of the Jharkhand Assembly, Team Oneindia is on the ground as the capital Ranchi also flocks to voting stations. Khatiyan is emerging as one major issue in these jharkhand polls. We talked with a local to understand why the 1932 memorandum is a big issue for Hundreds of Jharkhandis.     #JharkhandElections #Jharkhand #Voters #Oneindia #Ranchi #Jharkhand #AssemblyElections #HemantSoren #Soren #JMM #BJP #Elections #LIVE                  ~PR.282~HT.95~ED.103~GR.122~

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00:00this city of Ranchi, the capital city of Jharkhand would be voting in the first phase of elections

00:05and one key issue, the biggest issue that we have seen in our three-four-day stay here is the 1932

00:11land records issue. Mr. Divendra has joined us from Ranchi, he is a resident of Ranchi. Mr. Divendra,

00:17what is the whole issue of 1932 land records and how, if I talk about the minority community,

00:24the people who came before 1932, how does it affect them?

00:281932 is the year when the Britishers updated the land records here and the land records that were made at that time,

00:36taking the basic structure of those land records, we have been working all over India till date.

00:42There are two separate tenancy acts in Jharkhand, one is the Chhota Nagpur Tenancy Act and the other

00:48is the Sandhal Pargana Tenancy Act. The land revenue records in both these acts, the families whose land records

00:56have been entered in 1932, their descendants are considered the original residents of this place.

01:02And whatever political scenario has been of Bihar and Jharkhand till date, even after partition,

01:082000 onwards, these people have always been talking about 1932. There are three issues in this.

01:15The first is that there are many populations of Sikhs and Punjabis who migrated from Pakistan

01:21and there are many populations of Bengalis who migrated from Bangladesh and settled here.

01:26The issue will be that their ancestors are not from here, so how will you assert these two communities in 1932?

01:34The second issue is that there is a Capital City Development Act here.

01:41The Capital City Development Act has the power to overrule any tenancy act.

01:47But the government here, the high court here, has never paid attention to the fact that

01:52after declaring Ranchi as a capital city, we should remove the 1932 land and

01:59expand the district in such a way that it can become a beautiful capital. This is the second issue.

02:05And the third issue is that when we talk about the Khatiyas of 1932, how will we regularize this?

02:11This has been discussed many times in the Vidhan Sabha and no solution has been found to this till date.

02:17No political party has taken this into its manifesto that how will they adjust the minorities in this.

02:24So this is a million dollar question for us that if we come to our own country and come as refugees

02:30and then we come and settle down somewhere else, and then if we are called refugees again,

02:36then what is the meaning of our existence?

02:38Absolutely. The story of Sadat Hassan Manto, Toba Tek Singh, the situation of no man's land

02:47in Jharkhand, the way Devendra ji told us about the Khatiyas of 1932,

02:52it leaves a lot of people in the lurch, especially the minority community,

02:57especially those who came to this part of the country after partition in 1947.

03:02We will keep a close eye on the political proceedings in this beautiful, beautiful city of Ranchi.

03:10Keep watching One India.

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