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Tribal leader held after leading dharna

Staff Correspondent

BHOPAL: A tribal leader, along with two others, was arrested this weekend after he went to the District Collector' s office at Betul in Madhya Pradesh with a large number of tribals to play Holi and draw the Collector's attention to their pending demands through "Gandhigiri." The district president of the Samajwadi Jan Parishad, Mangal Singh, had given advance information about the plan. The national executive member of the Parishad, Anurag Modi, told The Hindu on Sunday that the tribals, on reaching the Collector's office at 4 p.m. on Saturday, found that Section 144 of Criminal Procedure Code had been imposed. They waited there for about an hour and left the place after distributing pamphlets.

The pamphlet said despite theiragitation, the Collector did nothing to address their demands that were linked to the rate for plucking tendu leaf, below poverty line survey and irregularities in payment as well as granting of compensation under the Employment Guarantee Act.

When the tribals left the Collectorate, Mangal Singh and two others were arrested near Nehru Park and sent to Betul Jail.

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