State governments continue to dilute the Land acquisition legislation

The JD(S)-Congress state govt in Karnataka is the latest to amend the Act. But Rahul Gandhi told Congress-ruled Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh to reverse changes BJP made when in power

In the second of a three-part series on the Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013, Business Standard reports the changes states have continued to make to the law — some as recently as in March 2019

Within a month of his party winning the Assembly elections in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, Indian National Congress President Rahul Gandhi wrote on January 7 to the newly elected chief ministers in these three states, and asked them to undo the changes that the previous Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state governments had made to the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in