Slogans raised have inspiring, awakening and assertive meanings. There is a group of people from Ekta Kala Lok Manch who are trained folk singers and masters in street plays. At every gathering, it is they who provide high voltage transmission of message through street plays and group songs. Whereas songs are enchanting and inspiring, the street plays are realistic in their portrayals of forced land alienation and exploitation of tribals by influential and moneyed class of village. Gokuran, Sooraj, Mohammad Khan, Shraddha, Usha, Veena are few of those who bring smile on the rugged faces of villagers by their plays and songs.
Land reform remains a vital issue for the poor and dispossessed in the country.
With varying interests vying to grab land for purposes other than subsistence agriculture, it becomes imperative for the people sensitive to the plight of the landless to stand up and be counted in the assembly of the poor. All over the country, land reform has remained an aborted dream. More so in Madhya Pradesh, where poor tribal and dalits face multiple evacuation from their ancestral land in return for dislocation, desolation and eventual dehumanisation. There are thousands of acres of Bhudan land lying undistributed to genuine owners. The land ceiling act remains suspended in the web of political procrastination.