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High play prevailed extracurricular the District Collectorate successful Rajasthan’s Barmer connected Tuesday (May 19, 2026) erstwhile Sheo MLA Ravindra Singh Bhati allegedly poured petrol connected himself during a protestation implicit the request for employment astatine a mining project. Mr. Bhati’s supporters and the constabulary unit restrained him and prevented immoderate mishap.
Mr. Bhati was taken wrong the Collectorate for talks with the elder officers to resoluteness the issue, portion the premises were placed nether dense constabulary deployment. The section youth, labourers and villagers had reached the Collector’s bureau arsenic portion of an ongoing agitation successful the Rajasthan State Mines and Mineral Limited (RSMML) lignite mines successful Giral area.
The section workers astatine the mines person been staging a sit-in protestation for astir 40 days, demanding solution of aggregate pending grievances related to employment, wages and moving conditions. Mr. Bhati, the Independent MLA from Sheo, joined the protesters successful solidarity and sat astatine the objection with them.
The protesters claimed that the section younker were not being fixed precedence successful employment and the workers were being exploited. Their cardinal demands included reinstatement of dismissed workers, implementation of an eight-hour enactment shift, outgo of bonuses, and proviso of basal facilities for labourers.
The demonstrators were besides agitated implicit the deficiency of immoderate effect from the mining institution and the nonaccomplishment of immoderate serviceman from the territory medication to crook up and person a memorandum. After Mr. Bhati and his supporters arrived extracurricular the Collectorate successful a ample convoy of vehicles, they entered into heated arguments with the constabulary officials astatine the barricades.
During the verbal duel with the constabulary personnel, Mr. Bhati abruptly allegedly poured petrol from a vessel implicit himself, triggering panic astatine the site. His supporters contiguous astatine the country rushed and wiped disconnected the petrol with a cloth, portion the information unit restrained him from making immoderate further movement.
Mr. Bhati earlier told journalists astatine the venue that the demands of labourers indispensable beryllium heard with “seriousness and sensitivity”. “Despite much than a period of peaceful protestation successful this heat, the medication has not taken immoderate measurement to resoluteness their grievances… This is simply a implicit nonaccomplishment of accountability,” helium said.
The Giral Lignite Mines, operated by RSMML, are a radical of large open-cast lignite mines located adjacent Thumbli and Giral villages, 43 km distant from Barmer, successful the Sheo Assembly constituency. The Giral mines are a important root of lignite ember successful the Thar portion of occidental Rajasthan.
