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Protesting TN farmers try climbing mobile tower in Delhi's Jantar Mantar

If their demands were not met they would contest the Lok Sabha polls against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Varanasi constituency

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New Delhi: Farmers from Tamil Nadu during a protest at Jantar Mantar, in New Delhi, Wednesday, April 24, 2024. (Photo: PTI)

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Few farmers from Tamil Nadu, including a woman, on Wednesday tried to climb onto a mobile tower as they protested at Delhi's Jantar Mantar over demands of better prices for their crops and the river interlinking issue, officials said.

Scores of Tamil Nadu farmers gathered at Jantar Mantar, some of who tried to climb nearby trees and a mobile tower, police said.

Police used a fire brigade crane to bring one of the protesting farmers back to the ground from the mobile tower, they said.

"Around 50 people have come for interlinking of rivers. Two of them tried climbing a mobile tower but they returned back to the ground," Deputy Commissioner of Police (New Delhi) Devesh Kumar Mahla said, adding that some of them tried climbing trees at the site.

 

Protesting farmers said around 100 farmers from Tamil Nadu participated in the demonstration. The farmers said they are demanding a doubling of their income from farm produce, a pension of Rs 5,000, individual insurance, and interlinking of all rivers in India.

If their demands were not met they would contest the Lok Sabha polls against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Varanasi constituency.

A senior official of the Delhi Fire Services said that they got a call about the protest and reached the location with sky lifts and the farmers were removed from the mobile tower.

(Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business Standard staff; the rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)

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First Published: Apr 24 2024 | 1:53 PM IST

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