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Ghaziabad: The land row in Mandola area of Ghaziabad is set to spurt yet again as farmers have decided to go on an indefinite fast from May 1. The government had registered these plots in the names of the landless people.“The government is ready for talks with the farmers. Officials failed to show up in the meetings scheduled subsequently during the second week of March and on 19 and 24 April thereafter. However, a number of outsiders who have no stake, whatsoever, in the dispute are trying to politicize the matter and derailing talks on one pretext or the other,” housing board joint commissioner Mahendra Prasad told TOI. Local political leaders having their allegiance to the ruling party aren’t allowing the talks,” farmer leader Manveer Teotia told TOI.Around 600 landless people had been awarded plots of 100 square yards each in Mandola for residential purposes by the state government in the year 1982-83..