India News | Release Arrested Villagers, Quash FIR: AAP on NTPC Dadri Protest
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Wednesday demanded that the protesters arrested by the police in Greater Noida during a demonstration at the NTPC Dadri be released.
Noida, Nov 2 (PTI) The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Wednesday demanded that the protesters arrested by the police in Greater Noida during a demonstration at the NTPC Dadri be released.
The Gautam Buddh Nagar unit of the AAP also urged the Uttar Pradesh government to consider the demand of increased compensation of the protesting villagers whose land was acquired in the past.
Clashes had erupted between the protesters and the police personnel on Tuesday after a protest at the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) plant in Dadri. Later the police and the CISF unit deployed at the NTPC had resorted to lathi-charge and opened water canon on the crowd to control it, according to officials.
The Bharatiya Kisan Parishad, which was leading the protest, claimed around a dozen protesters, including women, had suffered injuries in the clash while Deputy Commissioner of Police (Greater Noida) Abhishek Verma said three police personnel got severely hurt in the episode.
Later Tuesday night, the DCP said an FIR was lodged in the case, while a local police official said around a dozen protesters had been taken into custody.
AAP's Gautam Buddh Nagar unit office-bearers on Wednesday met with the protesting villagers in Greater Noida.
"The Yogi Adityanath government should refrain from suppressing the legitimate demand for equal compensation of farmers with the use of police force," AAP's district unit president Bhupendra Jadaun said.
He alleged that the government was working against the interest of farmers, youth and women in the state and assured his party's support to the communities.
"All the villagers who have been arrested should be released and the FIR lodged against them should be withdrawn. Also action should be taken against officials who opened lathi charge on the villagers," Jadaun said.
He said the villagers' demand for equal compensation is fair and alleged that the governments currently running the country and the state are "working to suppress the voice of farmers, youth and women with the use of the police".
Meanwhile, the AAP has planned a 'Gandagi mitaao, Jhaadu chalaao' programme in Dadri on Thursday in the presence of the party's senior leader and UP in-charge Sanjay Singh.
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