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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Land acquisition: Farmers clash with police in Bikaner

Land acquisition: Farmers clash with police in Bikaner

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published Published on May 25, 2011   modified Modified on May 25, 2011
-The Times of India
 
Farmers agitation against land acquisition in Kolayat in Bikaner district started on a violent note on Tuesday when thousands of protestors clashed with police and smashed a couple of government vehicles.

The farmers led by local MLA and former minister Devi Singh Bhati were demanding better compensation for their lands acquired by the state government and a rehabilitation package on the lines of that given by the neighbouring Haryana government.

" Rajasthan government is applying the land acquisition Act that was framed by the British for colonial India to axe the farmers' interests. This will not be tolerated," the legislator said addressing the peasants' Maha Padav (mass gathering) at Kolayat.

The state government initiated a process to acquire nearly 8000 bigha of agricultural land in six villages of Kolayat tehsil in February this year. The land is to be handed over to the Neyveli Lignite Corporation Limited and a Hyderabad-based private company for a thermal power plant.

To protest against the government thousands of people, including farmers, labourers, women and BJP workers started assembling outside the Kolayat tehsil office since early Tuesday. Braving the scorching heat, the protestors were pouring in at the Maha Padav site travelling in buses, jeeps, tractors and other vehicles from all over the district. They shouted slogans against the Ashok Gehlot-government, terming it "anti-farmer".

State BJP general secretary Satish Punia, Ratangarh MLA Rajkumar Rinwa, Khajuwala MLA Vishwa Nath, Bikaner West MLA Gopal Joshi and other BJP leaders were present.

Heavy security arrangements were in place to manage the crowd but clashes broke out when some agitators attacked the district police's vehicles, including the "Riot Control Vehicles". The police in turn used mild lathicharge to control the mob. Meanwhile, MLA Bhati asked the agitators to maintain peace. He alleged that some police officers were trying to disturb the agitation at the instance of the state government. Superintendent of police Habib Khan and other senior administration officials reached there after the clashes started.

The Times of India, 25 May, 2011, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/Land-acquisition-Farmers-clash-with-police-in-Bikaner/articleshow/8561230.cms


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