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MUSSOORIE: The overnight arrest of more than a dozen farmers agitating against formation of Bindukhata Municipal Council from tehsil under the banner of the Akhil Bharatiya Kisan Mahasabha has led to widespread resentment in Lalkuan region of Kumaon division.



Tribune News Service

Mussoorie, March 29

The overnight arrest of more than a dozen farmers agitating against formation of Bindukhata Municipal Council from tehsil under the banner of the Akhil Bharatiya Kisan Mahasabha has led to widespread resentment in Lalkuan region of Kumaon division.

Members of the Akhil Bharatiya Kisan Mahasabha were sitting on a hunger strike against the announcement made by the government when the police picked up more than 12 members from the sabha on Friday night without any prior notice.

The leaders of the sabha have condemned the incident. They say the government was bent on curbing their movement against formation of Municipal Council at Bindukhata in Lalkuan.

The national secretary of Akhil Bharatiya Kisan Mahasabha Purshotam Sharma said arrest of the agitating members from the Mahasabha within two days of the hunger strike was uncalled for and the administration was trying to divide them and break the movement, that will not be tolerated at any cost.

He further said eight members from the sabha who were on hunger strike are continuing their strike at the Base Hospital in Haldwani, where they have been admitted by the police.

The news of arrest of the agitating members spread like wildfire and around 600 more farmers reached the hunger strike spot in Bindukhata today in support of the agitators here.

Several youth members from the sabha also took out a rally against formation of the Bindukhata Municipal Council and registered their protest in the matter here.

CPI (M) leaders reached the protest site and extended support to the movement here. Comrade Raja Bahuguna, addressing the Kisan Sabha supporter, demanded from the government that Bindukhata be declared a revenue village instead of a Municipal Council being formed at Bindukhata.

He further said the government was eying the land in the area at the behest of the land mafia and taking such a decision that would be opposed by the left parties and members of the Kisan Sabha till the decision is revoked.

Bhuvan Joshi, Lakshman Suyal, Basanti Bisht, Dalbir Singh Kapola, Ramesh Chand, Gopal Gadiya, Anand Sijwali and others were present on the occasion.

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