Nagarkurnool/Hyderabad, Jan 20 (Maxim News): Tension has prevailed in Mylaram village under Balmoor mandal since Monday morning after farmers and villagers launched a relay hunger strike against the mining exploration in the vicinity and with police arresting the residents.
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The otherwise serene ambiance in the village reverberated with screams of women and arguments between the police farmers and villagers.
It is learned that a woman lost consciousness in the melee between the police personnel and the villagers. A woman also tried to consume pesticide and commit suicide but was stopped by the villagers, according to reports.
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As a means to prevent mining and vehicle passage, the residents even fenced the roads leading to the village with thorny bushes.
For the last few months, farmers and residents have been opposing the mining exploration in the locality, citing the adverse impact on nature, their lives, and livelihood. Amidst the stiff opposition, a few persons under the influence of a few locally elected public representatives were trying to explore mining in the area.
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Intensifying their demands, the villagers on Monday launched a relay hunger strike under the aegis of Mylaram Grama parirakshana Samithi.
However, the police arrived in the village in large numbers and arrested the villagers and farmers. Irked over the police action, the villagers raised slogans against the police department and the Congress government.
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The villagers also demanded the police to release all those, who had been arrested immediately, failing which they threatened to consume pesticides.
Meanwhile, political scientist and professor Haragopal, Human Rights Association State president Gaddam Laxman, and others were denied permission to visit the village. Environment experts and human rights activists have been raising objections over mining but exploration was being taken up without conducting any public hearing over the issue, they said. (Maxim News)
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