User:Land Grab

The phenomena is the routin of the day in India. Land Grab operations started in medieval times in remote places of Uttar-Pradesh, Bihar, Haryana and Maharashtra. "Landless farmers" came into being due to the grabbing of land en-mass by money-lenders, local politicians & likes. Then came protection for "landless farmers" in the books of law. As the spirit of modernisation spread widely across the country; metropolitan cities; especially Mumbai witnessed a 'never before never after' land grab series. Politicians who were restricted to grabbing land in their constituencies; mostly in remote areas of State; went all out to gulp primly located plots of land in what was then called called Bombay. The concepts like Slum Rehabilitation, re-development of old buildings etc. came to be irresistible temptations for those in seats of power. The earstwhile bribe-generating avenues such as tender allotments for scrap, for repairs & so on; faded away as the ones meant for low-ranking bureaucrats. Vilasrao Deshmukh; the two time Chief Minister of Maharashtra equated statistics in land-grab operations with Sharad Pawar; four-times CM of Maharashtra. Right from allotment of flats in CM quota, to removing reservations off public-interest plots such as gardens, schools etc; to what not......a unique varieties of modus-operandi came to be innovated. To top it all; the Judges of Bombay High Court grabbed two prime locations in NAriman Point oopposit Mantralaya; from where the State cabinet functions. Supreme COurt ratified the allotments. [A detailed chart shall soon be relayed]