Clash Between Farmer and Police in Sangrur: Farmers are demanding compensation for the flood damage in Punjab. For this demand, his one-day demonstration was to be held in Chandigarh on 22 August. But before that there was a clash between the farmer and the police at Longowal in Sangrur district. If media reports are to be believed, the news of the death of a farmer in this skirmish is coming to the fore in some media. At the same time, there is also information about the injuries of many other farmers and policemen.
Some farmer leaders in custody a day before the protest
According to media reports, farmers clashed with the police in Sangrur district on Monday over the custody of some farmer leaders, a day ahead of a pre-scheduled demonstration demanding compensation for the damage caused by the floods. The officials informed about this. Officials said the clash broke out when policemen under the banner of Bharati Kisan Union (Ekta-Azad) tried to stop farmers from proceeding to block a road and a toll plaza in the district.
Some policemen and farmers injured
He told that some policemen and farmers were injured in this. Sangrur Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Surendra Lamba said that the protesting farmers riding on tractor-trolleys and buses forcibly crossed the barricades put up by the police. He also told that some of the protesters also turned violent and attacked the policemen with sticks, in which two people including a police inspector were injured.
Some farmers got serious injuries after coming under the bus
Police said that a farmer was seriously injured after the protesters came under the bus. He told that the injured have been admitted to the hospital. Sixteen farmer organizations, including Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Samiti, Bharti Kisan Union (Krantikari), BKU (Ekta Azad), Azad Kisan Samiti, Doaba, BKU (Behramke) and Bhoomi Bachao Mohim, have planned to protest in Chandigarh on Tuesday.
On Monday, protesting farmers claimed that several of their leaders, including Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Samiti (KMSC) president Sarwan Singh Pandher, KMSC’s Satkar Singh Kotli, BKU (Behramke)’s Bohar Singh, were taken into custody by the police ahead of the protest. There was no immediate response from the police department on this. Farmer leaders are demanding a package of Rs 50,000 crore from the Center for the damage caused by the floods in the northern region including Punjab.
Demand for Rs 10 lakh compensation for the family of the person who died in the flood
They are also demanding compensation of Rs 50,000 per acre for crop loss, Rs 5 lakh for the damaged house and Rs 10 lakh for the family of the person who died in the flood. Let us inform that before this protest, the situation became such that police and farmers came face to face and according to media reports, a farmer lost his life.
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