Mumbai: `Betrayed´ Aarey tribals say government will pay for hacking trees, ready with questions for candidates
(WorldNews India)

For around 7,000 Adivasis or tribal voters living in the 27 padas (hamlets) in Aarey Milk Colony, felling of trees by the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Limited (MMRCL) for the Metro car shed was `betrayal´ they cannot put behind as polling day draws closer. Amid the vociferous protest by Adivasis and environmentalist, the MMRCL had cleared the Metro car shed site of the 2,141 trees till Monday. Adivasis believe that the government betrayed them, again. Advertising `Our rights were strangled in a day. We are not even allowed to step outside of our houses while they encroached upon our land. On the day (when trees were cut), it felt like they killed our families. Government will pay its...