Kisan Mahapanchayat: Farmers stage protest in Haryana's Karnal- In pics

The Mahapanchayat called by the protesting farmers started early on Tuesday morning ended in front of the Karnal Deputy Commissioner`s office with union leaders holding a meeting in front of the mini-secretariat to decide their future course of action. (Image credit: ANI)

The Kisan Mahapanchayat was organised to demand an FIR and strict action against SDM Ayush Sinha, who on August 28 had instructed the police to beat the protesting farmers. (Image credit: ANI)

 

Hundreds of protesters gathered in Karnal to support the farmers` demand, an 11-member farmers` delegation met the Karnal Deputy Commissioner and the Superintendent of Police at the mini-secretariat to submit a memorandum of their demands. (Image credit: ANI)

 

Memorandum also includes a demand for compensation of Rs 25 lakh and a government job to the next of kin of Sushil Kajal, a farmer from Gharunda who received head injuries in the lathi charge and died later due to a heart attack, along with a compensation of Rs 2 lakh for the wounded persons. (Image credit: IANS)

 

The delegation is led by farmer union leader Rakesh Tikait, political activist Yogendra Yadav, Karnal-based Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Gurnaam Singh Chaduni, BKU president Balbir Singh Rajewal, BKU (Sidhupur) member Jagjit Singh Dallewal, Ajay Rana and Darshan Pal, among others. (Image credit: IANS)

 

The meeting with the district officials ended inconclusively as they turned down all of the farmers` demands and the protest entered the second day of the demonstration. (Image credit: IANS)