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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | 5 killed as shots fired at MP farmers' protest, CM accuses Cong of instigating violence

5 killed as shots fired at MP farmers' protest, CM accuses Cong of instigating violence

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published Published on Jun 7, 2017   modified Modified on Jun 7, 2017
-The Times of India

INDORE: At least five persons were killed and over a dozen injured when shots were fired during a protest by farmers in Mandsaur district of Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday. Curfew has been clamped in Mandsaur and Pipliamandi and internet connectivity has been severed. The death toll, it is feared, may rise. The farmers were demanding that the government grant them a loan waiver and set a minimum support price for their farm produce.

Though the state government insisted the police and CRPF had not fired at the farmers, survivors of the shooting, and even the BJP state chief, contradicted the government. "I heard gunshots and saw policemen firing at a section of protesters nearest to them," Murli Sharma, one of the injured, told TOI from his hospital bed, adding that policemen beat him with lathis even as he lay bleeding.

In Bhopal, BJP state chief Nandkumar Singh Chouhan said: "Goli chali hai prashasan ki taraf se, jo meri jankari hai (Shots were fired by the administration, as far as I know)." With prohibitory orders in place and internet services down, the exact numbers of dead and injured were not known. The injured kept trickling out of the barricaded town bound for hospitals in Indore, some 240 km away.

Chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan ordered a judicial inquiry and said that anti-social elements, not farmers, were involved in the violence. He announced compensation of Rs 1 crore for the kin of the dead and Rs 5 lakh to those injured. Officials claim shots were fired from within the mob of protesters.

Accusing the Congress of instigating the violence, the CM said: "The deaths in Mandsaur are unfortunate. The demands of farmers have been met. I request them not to be misled by provocation." Congress rejected the charge and called a statewide bandh for Wednesday. "This government is at war with the farmers of our country," said AICC vice-president Rahul Gandhi.

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The Times of India, 7 June, 2017, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/5-killed-as-shots-fired-at-mp-farmers-protest-cm-blames-congress/articleshow/59026557.cms


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