Hyderabad
Pressure prevailed in Thullur city of Amaravati in Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday because the police arrested a number of farmers who have been agitating in opposition to the distribution of residential plots for the weaker sections from different components of the state within the capital area, officers and farmers’ leaders stated.
The police swooped on the “deeksha sibiram” (dharna camp) at Thullur, the place women and men farmers have been agitating for over two years demanding that the capital metropolis be retained in Amaravati, and took a number of of them into custody, folks conscious of the matter stated.
The event happened a day earlier than chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy is scheduled to distribute home web site pattas to over 50,000 poor households for development of weaker part homes on Thursday.
On Wednesday, the farmers have been protesting the chief minister’s programme, following a name given by TDP Guntur district unit president and former MLA Tenali Sravan Kumar.
The ruling YSR Congress social gathering activists have given a name for a bike rally within the village in help of the federal government’s resolution to provide home websites for the poor.
This led to a tense state of affairs within the village and the police imposed prohibitory orders below Part 144 of Cr PC and declared that no permission could be given for any type of protests, as it’d result in breakdown of legislation and order, a police official from Thullur police station stated.
Because the farmers have been attempting to stage a dharna on the protest camp, the police stopped them. After they resisted, the police took them into custody and shifted them to the police station, the police official stated.
The police additionally arrested advocate and Jai Bhim Bharat Social gathering president Jada Sravan Kumar, who was attempting to interrupt the boundaries to precise solidarity with the agitating farmers.
“It’s atrocious that the police have chosen to trample the democratic rights of the farmers to peacefully agitate. We aren’t in opposition to anyone or any social gathering. We’re solely agitating in help of the reliable rights of Amaravati farmers,” Sravan Kumar stated, speaking to reporters on the police station.
The Thullur police made an announcement within the public tackle system that anyone making an attempt to protest or enter the world will probably be arrested. The police additionally stored native TDP leaders below home arrest as a precautionary measure, the official quoted above stated.