68,250 Hectare land cannot be granted to China, Yogeswaran MP express opposition

The TNA MP for Baticaloa District, seenithamby Yogeswaran had said that 68,250 Hectare land in Kudumbimalai, Batticaloa, cannot granted to Government Company of China for Sugar Cane Cultivation.

He had said so in a letter sent to the District Secretary of Batticaloa, informing him that the above lands had been secretly given to a Chinese Government Company.

“ I have been informed with evidence that the government had signed a secret  agreement granting 68,250 Hectares secretly to a Chinese Government owned company. Sugar cane cultivation will result  in the people  living in famine.

The Sugar cane cultivations which were abandoned in Sinhalese areas being brought into Tamil areas is with a hidden agenda of causing inimical impact on Tamil people’s life. This project could not be allowed to be implemented in Batticaloa District. Please taken action to include this also in the DDC meeting for discussion.”, he had said.

Copies of this letter had been sent to the Eastern Governor, Rohiththa Bogollagama, Eastern Province Land commissioner D.D.Anura Dharmadasa, and the Divisional Secretary N.Wilvaratnam.