Protesters pull up police for ‘disrupting’ Surjagarh movement
Ramdas Jarate He has blamed the police for tearing up his mobile phone and taking him barefoot in half pants. He has alleged that the senior inspector who confiscated my and wife's phones.
Nagpur: Anti-mining protesters strongly condemned the district administration and the police department for allegedly calling off the ‘Thiya agitation’ in the early hours of Saturday and forcibly evicting them from Etapalli. He has also appealed to the gram sabhas to celebrate ‘Kali Diwali’ in protest against the “arbitrariness of the district administration and police”.
The worker of Shetkari Kamgar Sanghatna whose name is Ramdas Jarate Who was also among half a dozen leaders arrested from this movement site, He has blamed the police for tearing up his mobile phone and taking him barefoot in half pants. He has alleged that the senior inspector who confiscated my and wife’s phones. Now they are saying that they don’t have any phones. They are planning to put something in that mobile phone to completely trap me.
Ramdas has also said that this protest will continue with the demand to cancel the mining lease of Surjagarh and about 25 companies.
At Mining Site Work Stopped
He has also said that according to the condition of bail, we will not be able to lead the people at all, but the struggle at the individual level will continue without stopping. Our Shetkari Kamgar Party will now also demand to meet the Home Minister and the Chief Minister on this issue.
The situation in Etapalli seems to be getting back to normal. Security intelligence and police departments have stepped up vigil in the southern part of the Maoist-hit district.
Sources have now said that work at the mining site was halted for a day after the protesters were completely evicted. On Saturday, the police department had tightened security in and around the mining site, about 15 km away.
Now even the intelligence agencies are not ruling out the possibility of a reaction at all.
Sources have said that the demonstrators are deeply annoyed by the forcible eviction even after a completely peaceful agitation.
For comment Senior police officials were not available
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