RAIPUR: Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday mounted a blistering attack on BJP governments at the centre and state over land acquisition in Chhattisgarh and promised to return the land acquired from tribals in 2005 for the proposed Tata Steel’s integrated steel plant project—which has now been abandoned.Addressing an election meeting at Jagdalpur, the divisional headquarters of Bastar, he said the BJP government had acquired land from the tribals in Bastar for setting up Tata Steel plant but even after several years the project did not come up. “After formation of our government in Chhattisgarh, we will return about 4000 acres of land acquired for Tata Steel project to original owners”, he added.Asserting that the Congress government would give tribals their right on land under the Panchayat Extension in Scheduled Areas (PESA) Act, Rahul said its Congress party’s resolve that farmers' land would not be acquired without their consent and if the farmers are ready to part with their land for any project they would be entitled for compensation which would be four times more than the prevailing market rates.For the past many years, Congress has been demanding return of farmers land acquired in 2005 for the proposed steel plant near Lohandiguda in tribal Bastar region after Tata Steel withdrew from the project.The BJP government had signed an MoU with Tata Steel in 2005 to set up the mega steel plant. A total of 2044 hectares of land from 10 villages had been acquired despite protests from the locals.As the opposition parties pressed for return of land to the tribals, the government took a stand earlier that as per the new land acquisition policy of 2013, if the land was not used after taking its possession for the next five years then it will be returned to the original owner.However, the government also maintained that the Chhattisgarh State Industrial Development Corporation (CSIDC) has acquired the land but it is yet to take its possession and hence, the provision is not applicable here.