Villagers protesting for Yamuna Expressway project
AGRA: Villagers protesting against the land acquisition. The wave of violence from Greater Noida where there is a bloody farmers’ agitation against land acquisition reach to Agra.
The Irate villagers, protesting against the land acquisition for the Uttar Pradesh government’s Yamuna Expressway project.
Farmers turned violent during a protest and indulged into arson, Special Director General of Police- Law and Order, Brij Lal said in Lucknow.
He said that the angry villagers torched several vehicles and tents. The farmers were protesting against land acquisition for the Yamuna Expressway in the area. They set on fire the construction company The Jaypee Group’s camp office.
The clash resulted in four deaths including that of two policemen and two villagers. The area continues to remian tense with heavy police presence. Four policemen were also injured today when agitating farmers clashed with police and torched vehicles in Chaugaan village here over the land acquisition row.
The attack is also in retaliation to the clash between farmers and security personnel at the Bhatta Parsaul village in Greater Noida yesterday, the local administration feels that. There is heavy police deployment in the village in Agra also.
