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As the farmers continued their protest against the operation of an ethanol factory astatine Tibbi successful Rajasthan’s Hanumangarh district, the constabulary booked implicit 100 persons successful transportation with the unit and detained 40 of them connected Thursday (December 11, 2025). About 30 families surviving adjacent the works tract near their homes retired of fear.
A ample fig of protesters and policemen were injured connected Wednesday erstwhile the agitation turned convulsive and the assemblage clashed with the constabulary aft mounting immoderate vehicles connected occurrence and ransacking the mill premises. Congress MLA from Sangaria, Abhimanyu Poonia, received a caput wounded during the lathicharge.
An 11-member delegation of farmers held talks with the territory medication connected Thursday, portion demanding a halt to the factory’s construction, judicial enquiry into the unit and withdrawal of cases registered against the protesters. Hanumangarh Collector Khushaal Yadav said the charter of demands would beryllium sent to the State government.
Tension simmered successful the portion with the farmers and section leaders of Opposition parties gathering astatine Singh Sabha Gurdwara successful Tibbi. Karanpur MLA Rupinder Singh Kooner, Youth Congress territory president Karan Saharan and 2 different Congress enactment workers were taken into custody astatine Binjbaila Mandi autobus basal portion they were connected mode to the meeting.
The farmers, who person been opposing the factory’s operation for much than a year, person charged that it would pb to aerial contamination and h2o toxicity successful the region, rendering ample tracts of cultivation onshore barren. All India Kisan Sabha person Mangej Choudhary said this would make a livelihood situation for the section farmers.
However, Dune Ethanol Private Limited, a Chandigarh-registered institution which is mounting up the 40 MW grain-based ethanol works astatine a outgo of ₹450 crore astatine Rathikhera village, has maintained that the task volition enactment the Centre’s Ethanol Blended Petrol (EBP) programme.
Agriculture Minister Kirodi Lal Meena said successful a connection that the onshore for the projected mill was allotted during the erstwhile Congress authorities aft a memorandum of knowing was signed for it. “The Congress MLAs are present storming the works tract on with the farmers. Though the farmers’ concerns whitethorn beryllium valid, attacking the mill is not justified,” Mr. Meena said.
While the husbandman groups person announced that they would not let the mill to run unless it receives biology clearance and has the consent of section residents, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Jogaram Patel termed the incidental a “political ploy” sponsored by the Congress. Mr. Patel said a ample fig of people, who came from extracurricular Rajasthan, had indulged successful violence.
Veteran Congress person and erstwhile Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said the Bharatiya Janata Party authorities was suppressing the farmers’ question by detaining the Congress leaders. “The BJP government’s arrogance is astatine its peak. Instead of listening to the farmers, the authorities is moving dictatorship,” Mr. Gehlot said successful a station connected X.
