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Tension in Sriganganagar

Special Correspondent

JAIPUR: Tension prevailed on Tuesday in Sriganganagar district even as farmers tried to hold demonstrations protesting against the previous day's police lathi-charge in Gharsana and Rawla towns. Jawans of the Special Task Force and the Rajasthan Armed Constabulary held flag marches in the area.

The district administration which kept a close vigil over the day's developments ordered imposition of curfew in Gharsana and Rawla from 8 p.m. The District Collector, Kunji Lal Meena, said the move was a precautionary measure as the farmers were reportedly preparing to intensify their agitation.

Around 500 workers of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) tried to hold a demonstration in Sriganganagar against the previous day's police lathi-charge on the farmers of the Indira Gandhi Canal Project Phase I. In Rawla the mobs reportedly damaged a culvert.

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