Text and video by Atul Anand, TwoCircles.net
On February 28, 2019, Birsa Ambedkar Phule Student’s Association (BAPSA) at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi organised a talk following the recent Supreme Court order which rejected more than 20 lakh land claims by Adivasi families. The court asked different states to evict them from their land. Around one crore Adivasis are feared to be affected by this decision. The talk “Implications of Forest Rights Act and Recent Supreme Court Judgement: Beyond Settler Time” had activist & scholar Abhay Flavian Xaxa and Delhi University faculty Neetisha Xalxo as speakers.
Joint Adivasi Yuva Forum, Bhartiya Adivasi Manch and various other organizations had called for a protest march in New Delhi on Saturday, March 2, 2019. There is a call for a nation-wide strike on March 5, 2019, for demanding actions on the issue of Forest Rights, the 13-point roster system and different issues concerning the people of the country.