Jairam Ramesh demands the withdrawal of Nicobar forest clearances (File photo). Congress Rajya Sabha MP Jairam Ramesh wrote to Union Minister of Tribal Affairs Jual Oram Wednesday and alleged that the rights of the tribal community under the Forest Rights Act, 2006, were violated in the case of the Great Nicobar Island Project , and sought ‘credible, remedial action’ immediately. Rebutting the Centre’s claims in a ‘Great Nicobar Project FAQ’ issued on May 1, which stated that all statutory procedures and policy safeguards for tribal protection were duly complied, Ramesh called these claims “entirely false”. The Congress leader charged that the gram sabhas convened in Campbell Bay, Laxmi Nagar, and Govind Nagar on August 12, 2022, to divert more than 13,000 hectares of forest land for the mega project, and that their resolutions were illegal because they comprised settlers .…