…[G]overnment…reintroduced the contentious land acquisition amendment bill 2015 to replace an ordinance that lawmakers from the Opposition slammed as anti-poor and claimed threatened India's food security….Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked his party MPs to aggressively defend the land acquisition bill saying that it is pro-farmer…Social activists and the Opposition Congress have termed the ordinance amending the land acquisition act as "anti-people". "This is not democracy. Without consultations, they (ministers) are taking big decisions," activist Medha Patkar told reporters.