In context with the large scale tree-cutting in Hasdeo Aranya forests for coal mining amid heavy police protection in Chhattisgarh leading to repression of tribal activists and communities in the region, Chhattisgarh Bachao Andolan highlighted the multi-dimensional destruction of environment, tribal culture and the eco-system as a whole. The CBA convener Alok Shukla held a press conference in Newly Delhi claiming that fake gram sabhas were being organized in state for seven coal blocks allocated to corporate houses, “Hasdeo forests are being cut for corporate profit and not to meet demand for coal.” Others from Hasdeo Aranya Bachao Sangharsh Samiti, Sudiep Shrivastava, advocate, Chhattisgarh High Court, highlighted how irrespective of the party in power, adivasi community has always suffered at the hands of corporates. Umeshawar Singh Armo, a leader of the movement and a member of the Hasdeo Aranya Bachao Sangharsh Samiti highlighted the “brutal treatment of adivasis protesting the d...