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On January 14, Congress MP Santokh Chaudhary died at similar dead during Bharat Jodo Yatra in Punjab.
In another shocking incident of heart attack, a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) collapsed and died during a demonstration against police crackdown on farmers demanding compensation for the acquisition of their land in Bihar’s Buxar on Monday.
Parashuram Chaturvedi, who unsuccessfully contested assembly polls from Buxar in 2020, suffered a heart stroke during BJP’s ‘Jan Aakrosh Yatra’ against the lathi charge on protesting farmers and an attack on Union minister Ashwini Choubey’s convoy. He was rushed to a private hospital where doctors declared him dead.
When he heard the news, Union minister Choubey started weeping inconsolably at a press conference.
For more than two months, hundreds of farmers have been protesting against the construction of a power plant in the Chausa area of Buxar district, demanding adequate compensation for their lands acquired by the government.
On January 11, the protest turned violent when farmers attacked a police station, alleging that policemen barged into their houses the preceding night and thrashed their family members for supporting the protest. Six protestors were injured in the violence that also saw a police van being set on fire by agitators in Muffasil area of the district.
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Villagers had alleged that policemen ransacked the homes of many protestors, and assaulted and arrested them on Tuesday night, hours after they sat on a dharna in protest demanding more compensation for their acquired land outside the power plant gate.
A day after the violence, Union minister Ashwini Choubey became a victim of the protesters’ wrath. During a visit to his Buxar Lok Sabha constituency, he met the protesters on January 12. Angry protestors pelted stones at his convoy and forced him to leave the venue within 10 minutes.
Opposition BJP has criticised the Nitish Kumar-led state government for police brutality and accused the chief minister of running “gunda raj”.
“The chief minister, the district magistrate, and the SP – all have denied having granted permission for police to conduct raids on Tuesday night. If no one has given permission, how did the police dare to barge into the houses of protesters in the dead of night and beat up innocent children,” asked Choubey.
In a similar incident, Jalandhar Congress MP Santokh Chaudhary collapsed due to a heart attack during Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra and died within hours at a hospital in Punjab on January 14.
