The police resorted on the farmers who had gathered in the state capital for their march to Raj Bhawan on Tuesday to mild lathicharge and fired water canons. Midway stopped the agitating farmers who broke the lock of Gate 6 of the historic Gandhi Maidan and started their march to Raj Bhawan via the busy Dak Bungalow crossing.
The farmers are opposing the three divisive farm laws passed in September by the Centre.
Eyewitnesses said thousands of farmers had gathered in Patna since early morning under the banner of Akhil Bharatiya Kisan Sangharsh Samanvay Samiti and other leftist parties and had started their march from the historic Gandhi Maidan.
The farmers broke the lock of Gate number 6 of the Gandhi Maidan at around 10 am and also the barricade near the Maidan and started marching to Raj Bhawan via the Dak Bungalow crossing to which the police objected and resorted to mild lathicharge. Water cannons were also fired by police on the marching farmers. When the demonstrators were going helter skelter, the busy Dak Bungalow crossing witnessed wild scenes.
Slogans against the Center and the state government were raised by the protesting farmers bearing banners and placards.
Earlier, Ramadhar Singh, State Secretary, Akhil Bharatiya Kisan Mahasabha, affiliated with CPI (ML), said that the sharecroppers have participated in the Raj Bhawan march in addition to the farmers. He said the tremendous farmers’ assembly demonstrated their second revolution against the regime. The farmers demonstrated their solidarity in the first demonstration against the zamindari regime and now against the zamindari scheme.
