Farmers' protests had heated up in Mandsaur district of Madhya Pradesh, as the farmers demanded fair prices for their produce and waiver of their loans.
A PTI report from Mandsaur said Madhya Pradesh police arrested - and subsequently released - 30 activists, including Medha Patkar, Yogendra Yadav and Swami Agnivesh, in Ratlam, while they were on their way to Mandsaur to meet families of farmers killed in police firing. Chouhan was greeted by the ex-Chief Minister of the state Kailash Joshi, who wished him well. There has been let-up in violence and peace is returning fast, " he said. While any pain to farmers is unacceptable, those who have engaged in incendiary activities will be severely dealt with.
"I appeal to the people, farmers to come to the negotiating table", he said.
During his fast, Chouhan had met 15 delegations of small farmers and 236 of big cultivators.
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BJP state president Nandkumar Singh Chauhan had claimed that the family members of those killed in police firing at Mandsaur on Tuesday have requested the CM to call off his fast. Due to the firing, 5 farmers were killed. Their gesture moved me so much that I could not sleep, " Chouhan said.
Also, many windmills are operating in the region for which land was acquired from the farmers, but the government never gave compensation for the agricultural land, she alleged.
He said "Kisan Bazaar" would be set up in all municipal areas and a cooperative institution on the lines of the Amul Dairy Cooperatives of Gujarat will be set up across the state.
He announced a series of decisions aimed at the welfare of the state's farmers, including buying of all crops on Minimum Support Prices, purchase of milk as per Amul Dairy's formula, and setting up of farmers markets in Madhya Pradesh to save them from the clutches of middlemen. He also met several representatives of farmers' organisations and listened to their problems on Saturday. "They dispersed after they were released,"City SP Deepak Kumar Shukla said. Their parents came to meet me yesterday and despits such grief befalling upon them, asked me to put an end to the issue". "If peace remains, we will decide the further course of action tomorrow", he told NDTV channel.
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