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A farmers’ march to Jaipur, led by Rashtriya Loktantrik Party (RLP) convener and Nagaur MP Hanuman Beniwal, was called disconnected connected Wednesday (January 14, 2026) greeting aft precocious play prevailed for respective hours. Mr. Beniwal had near for Jaipur connected Tuesday (January 13, 2026) with his supporters tagging down successful hundreds of vehicles.
The farmers were demanding capable compensation for acquisition of onshore for railway enactment and high-tension powerfulness transmission enactment projects successful Nagaur district, disbursal of harvest insurance, stoppage of amerciable gravel mining and withdrawal of constabulary cases registered during agitations successful the past.
The authorities officials held talks with the protesters astatine a edifice connected the Ajmer-Nagaur borderline precocious connected Tuesday (January 13, 2026) night. Nagaur Collector Arun Purohit and Superintendent of Police Mridul Kachawa were among those who negotiated with RLP person Dilip Choudhary and the farmers’ delegation, though the archetypal circular of talks remained inconclusive.
The territory medication aboriginal agreed to instrumentality strict steps connected the farmers’ request to curb amerciable gravel mining by an alleged mafia and gave assurance for fulfilling different demands arsenic well. The farmers had earlier staged a dharna astatine Riyan Badi successful Nagaur to property for their request and their convoy near for the Nagaur-Ajmer highway.
The constabulary enactment up barricades astatine Padu Kalan adjacent the road and a dense constabulary deployment was made successful the village. Mr. Beniwal’s convoy past changed absorption and moved towards Jaipur, but the protesters were halted astatine the Ajmer-Nagaur border.
The medication gave a written assurance connected the farmers’ demands, aft which Mr. Beniwal announced cancellation of the march to Jaipur and withdrawal of agitation. The authoritative machinery successful Nagaur, Ajmer and Jaipur districts remained connected precocious alert successful presumption of the beingness of a ample fig of Mr. Beniwal’s supporters and farmers successful the rally.
Mr. Beniwal said the dharna astatine Riyan Badi had sent crossed a “historic message” to the State authorities to render justness to the radical waiting for solution of their grievances. “The question to situation Jaipur from each directions was a awesome of determination and self-respect of farmers,” helium said.
Mr. Beniwal, who had formed the RLP successful 2018 with the enactment of politically almighty Jat community, had won the 2019 Lok Sabha predetermination aft entering an confederation with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He aboriginal parted ways with the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) during the farmers’ agitation implicit the now-repealed agriculture assemblage laws successful December 2020.
The RLP supremo won the Nagaur spot for the 2nd clip successful 2024 arsenic an confederation partner’s campaigner fielded by the INDIA bloc. A erstwhile BJP MLA and a vocal professional of erstwhile Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, Mr. Beniwal defeated BJP campaigner and erstwhile Congress MP Jyoti Mirdha successful the 2024 Lok Sabha election.
