At least five farmers were killed and several injured during the protest in Madhya Pradesh’s Mandsaur district on Tuesday. Farmers were protesting and demanding for the better prices in the drought-ravaged region which recorded a farmers suicide in every five hours in 2016-2017. In this protest, Police opened up the fire in which five were killed. Today twitter overflowed with farmers massacre hashtags blaming BJP government for this killing of farmers.
#FarmersMassacre Is Modi planning to apply 4 citizenship in Euro or US when he can tweet abt London Stockholm etc den y not Indian farmers?
— DoFlaminGo (@TyrMc8) June 7, 2017
BJP has morally lost any power to take decisions for the people that they just have murdered. #FarmersMassacre
— NG (@NG_ARC) June 7, 2017
https://twitter.com/SalmanNizami_/status/872339327287791618
BJP के न्यू इंडिया में हक़ मांगने पर हमारे अन्नदाताओं को गोली मिलती है?#Mandsaur #MadhyaPradesh https://t.co/j0OLcVrjsq
— Office of RG (@OfficeOfRG) June 6, 2017
Politics strengthen after the killing of five farmers during protests. The Congress party countering BJP and twitted that “BJP has failed to fulfill any of their promises. That is why they are resorting to lies & excuses”. They are targeting the three years of Modi government. Congress further said that is this how the Shivraj Chouhan government responds to farmers demand? and wrote a fair price met with death. And also the Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi scheduled the visit to Mandsaur after this incident.
Don't worry Modi ji we have altered your campaign poster to better reflect your actual position. #FarmersMassacre pic.twitter.com/xOz7fZ5qa8
— Congress (@INCIndia) June 7, 2017
Is this how Shivraj Chouhan Govt responds to farmers demands? A demand for a fair price is met with death. #FarmersMassacre pic.twitter.com/7eU7LlaMIO
— Congress (@INCIndia) June 7, 2017
Whereas the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh Shivraj Chouhan announced that the family of the farmers who was killed in protests will receive Rs. 10 lakh in compensation and injured will receive 1 lakh. He also expressed his views and appealed everyone to maintain peace today. He twitted “I appeal to my fellow brothers to maintain peace. I am deeply pained by the turn of events today.I stand by families in this hour of grief.”
I appeal to my fellow brothers to maintain peace. I am deeply pained by the turn of events today.I stand by families in this hour of grief. pic.twitter.com/B8ayw2jQc8
— ShivrajSingh Chouhan (@ChouhanShivraj) June 6, 2017
मंदसौर घटना के मृतकों के परिजनों को रु. 10 लाख, गंभीर घायलों को 1 लाख सहायता राशि देंगे। घायलों के इलाज की ज़िम्मेदारी प्रदेश सरकार उठायेगी।
— ShivrajSingh Chouhan (@ChouhanShivraj) June 6, 2017
Mandasaur situation remains tense as the agitation spread further and angry farmers ransacked a police outpost. The local administration has imposed a curfew on Pipalia town. According to the reports, agitators have set vehicles on fire. They were agitating for higher returns for the last six days. The firing incident took place yesterday around 1 pm. And to stop disseminating information on the social media, the government of the Madhya Pradesh shut down the internet services in three districts.
