National Council for Civil libery (NCCl), a Gujarat-based NGO exposed Narmada Bacaho Andolan (NBA) activist, Medha Patkar and other NBA workers bid to collect donations forcefully from the residents of Umda village of Alirajpur district of Madhya Pradesh. The villagers gave statements pertaining to forceful collection of donations from NBA workers before the sub-divisional Magistrate.
NCCl president VK Saxena said that he had brought Patkar’s bid to collect donations forcefully to the notice of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “Since last 14 years of my battle against Medha Patkar, I exposed her anti-national activities. This time forceful collection of donations from the poor villagers in the name of fighting the case has been brought to the notice of the Prime Minister,” said Saxena adding that Medha is virtually blacklisted by the SC in 2011, for filing false affidavits in the court.
Saxena in his letter also annexed the copies of three statements given by residents of the village situated under Jobat tehsil before the sub-divisional Magistrate (SDM). The residents Dinesh laxman Singh, Chuniya Gul Singh and Nanla Gul Singh stated before the SDM that NBA workers are not only demanding `5,000 but they are also demanding 20 kg grains from them on the pretext of fighting cases in grievance redressal authority (GRA).