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Farmers clashed with the constabulary during their protestation against the operation of an ethanol mill astatine Tibbi successful Rajasthan’s Hanumangarh territory connected Wednesday (December 10, 2025), leaving respective persons injured. Police resorted to lathi complaint and lobbed teargas shells to disperse the farmers astatine a ‘Mahapanchayat’ adjacent the mill premises.
The agitating farmers entered the mill compound and ransacked the gathering materials utilized for construction. The crowd, which turned restive aft the lathicharge, torched astir 10 vehicles and damaged 3 bulldozers.
Those injured included Congress MLA from Sangaria and State Youth Congress president, Abhimanyu Poonia. He was referred to Mahatma Gandhi Memorial District Hospital successful Hanumangarh for diagnostic tests aft the superior aesculapian assistance fixed astatine the venue of protest.
The ‘Mahapanchayat’ was held against the ethanol works being acceptable up astatine a outgo of ₹450 crore by a backstage institution successful Rathikhera colony panchayat adjacent Tibbi. Farmers person been opposing the factory’s operation for much than a twelvemonth with the contention that it would pb to aerial contamination and h2o toxicity successful the region.
Sriganganagar MP Kuldeep Indora, erstwhile Bhadra MLA Balwan Poonia, CPI(M) person Mangej Choudhary and respective leaders of farmers’ groups successful Hanumangarh and Sriganganagar districts arsenic good arsenic from neighbouring Punjab participated successful the ‘Mahapanchayat’. The medication has imposed prohibitory orders successful the Tibbi country since November 18.
The clash occurred erstwhile the farmers marched towards the under-construction mill and broke its wall. The constabulary enactment to disperse the protesters created chaos and near respective persons injured. The markets successful Tibbi were closed and Internet services were unopen down.
The husbandman leaders person claimed that the mill would pollute the situation and render the onshore barren. This volition make a livelihood situation for the section farmers, according to the leaders, who person demanded the plant’s shifting to a antithetic location.
Veteran Congress person and erstwhile Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot condemned the usage of unit by the constabulary during the farmers’ agitation. “The Congress volition proceed to rise the farmers’ dependable fearlessly,” Mr. Gehlot said successful a station connected X, portion asking the Bharatiya Janata Party authorities wherefore it harboured “hatred towards farmers”.
