'Kisan Mukti Yatra' interrupted in M.P,300 arrested

BHOPAL:'Kisan Mukti Yatra', taken out on Thursday to pay homage to the six protesting farmers killed in police firing in Madhya Pradesh's Mandsaur district, has been halted by the police and as many as 300 persons arrested.
"The peapole involved in the yatra are arrested on the accusation of disrupting peace.Till now, as many as 300 persons have been arrested," Superintendent of Police Manoj Singh told IANS.
Communist Party of India-Marxist state unit chief Badal Saroj told IANS: "The Yatra, which began from Bhudha village, has been halted at Guddeli village. These people were going to Peepli Mandi where farmers were killed in police firing."
Rashtriya Kisan Mazdoor Sangathan convenor V.M. Singh, Akhil Bharatiya Kisan Sabha General Secretary Hannan Mollah, CPI-M leader Subhashini Ali, Swaraj India's Yogendra Yadav, social activist Medha Patkar, Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghathan's founder Raju Shetti, farmers and women.
The Yatra began under leadership of all india kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, has representatives of more than 100 groups of farmers from all over the country.Their demands include loan waivers and fixing the maximum support price of the crop yield based on recommendations by the M.S. Swaminathan Committee.
"All of them have lifted ploughs on their shoulder while the farmers are waiving green flags, this Yatra will go through Maharashtra and Gujarat to reach New Delhi on July 18, where a tribute will be paid to the six farmers killed in Mandsaur," AIKSC state cheif Jaswinder Singh said.
Tight security arrangements are made for Yatra and police forces were deployed at many palces.The farmers' protests that started in the state on June 1 for better prices for their produce and debt relief, turned violent on June 6 when five farmers were killed in police firing in Mandsaur.