The police used force, burst teargas shells and resorted to a lathicharge at Congress workers near the police headquarters here on Saturday afternoon when they were going in a procession towards Raj Bhavan to give a memorandum of demands to Madhya Pradesh governor Rameshwar Thakur on the farmers’ crisis.
State Congress president Suresh Pachouri, who was leading the procession, lodged a strong protest against brute use of force by the police by sitting on an indefinite fast near the police control. room. Sitting with him were a large number of farmers and Congress workers blocking road traffic. Talking to this newspaper, Mr Pachouri said that the BJP has demonstrated its fascist tendency by blocking their democratic right and stopping them from meeting the governor to present him a memorandum and raising the farmers’ voice.