The agitating Odisha farmers under the banner of Naba Nirman Krushak Sangathan (NNKS) Friday said they would launch civil disobedience movement from November 15 to press for their demands.
On Monday, police stopped the farmers on the National Highway before they could enter Bhubaneswar where a mass convention was planned to highlight the issues facing them.
NNKS national convener Akshya Kumar, who had earlier rejected the state government's inter-ministerial committee to hold discussion on the farmers' issues, said the stir would begin from November 15.
"Our activists will stage demonstration before all the police stations across the state on November 15 protesting the police role in preventing the farmers' entry into the state capital for holding congregation," Kumar told reporters here.
Criticising the state government for foiling the farmers' rally, Kumar said the police arrested them before they could enter the state capital on November 5. The government used police to prevent farmers entry, he said.
The farmers would also hold dharna in all the gram panchayats in Odisha on November 12, Kumar said.
Asked about the government's inter-ministerial panel headed by finance minister S B Behera, the NNKS leader said: "We have already rejected the government committee as this will not solve the problems of farmers."