Farm laws: Bhopal Police lob Tear Gas Shells, Fire Water Cannons on Protesting Congress Workers
News 18The Bhopal Police on Saturday lobbed tear gas shells, fired water cannons and even resorted to the use of ‘brute’ force to disperse a protest by the Congress in support of farmers who are up in arms over the Centre’s three contentious farm laws. The Congress contingent, which included former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Kamal Nath, senior leader Digvijaya Singh, former assembly speaker NP Prajapati among others, was marching towards the Raj Bhavan in Bhopal when the police blocked them. As the demonstrators did not budge, the police used water cannons to disperse the crowd and lobbed tear gas shells at them. The MP Congress had recently organised a Khat Panchayat in Morena district and formally extended support to the farmers’ agitation seeking a rollback of new agri marketing laws from Centre.