Police on high alert to avert any conflict
Staff Correspondent
Port Blair, May 13: The Tsunami affected farmers of South Andaman are all set to bring out a massive protest rally tomorrow from Tiranga Park to Raj Niwas, to press their demands for compensation (without surrendering their tsunami inundated land).
More than 1000 villagers are expected to attend the rally, which will start at 9.30 am from Tiranga Park. The Member of Parliament of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Mr. Bishnu Pada Ray will lead the rally, which was actually called by Gram Vikas Samity. The Gram Sudhar Sangham, which had started the protest, had recently backed off for its own reasons.
“We are expecting more than 1000 villagers and we would gherao the Raj Niwas. We will ask time from the Lt. Governor and handover a memorandum,” Rajesh Kumar Lall the General Secretary of GVS told Andaman Sheekha today.
Meanwhile, Andaman and Nicobar Police has made elaborate arrangement to make sure that the rally ends peacefully. One bitten twice shy the A & N Police Department won’t surely want a situation like April 19, 2012, when during farmers’ first protest rally situation had gone almost out of control.
“We respect democratic rights of all individual, including farmers. Let it not turn violent and we would like to avoid any conflict. We are deploying extra force to keep situation under control,” SBS Tyagi the Superintendent of Police of South Andaman told Andaman Sheekha today.
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