Opposition parties organised a Prativad march against the Barkagaon firing incident on Wednesday at Hazaribagh announced by their leaders two days ago. leaders and workers of JVM, RJD, Congress, CPI Ml, CPI, CPM, JMM, Khatiyani Parivaar, Adivashi Mulvashi Sangh came out in the streets of Hazaribagh town in good numbers and assembled in the ground of Zila School. From here the march started and after covering almost all important roads of Hazaribagh town concluded in front of collectorate at the Dharna site.
Party leaders and workers shouted slogans against government, local MP Jayant Sinha, his father Yashwant Sinha, NTPC and Triveni Sainik mining company. They were holding many placards in hands with slogans against all these.
At Dharna site CPI (Ml) MlA Raj Kumar Yadav, JVM Shivlal Mahto, Chandranath Bhai Patel, CPI Shiv Kumar Shibu, RJDs Bhuvaneshwar Patel, Harish Srivastava, Congress’s Vijay Yadav, JMMs Phagu Besra, JDUs Bateshwar Prasad Mehta, CPMs Ganesh Kumar Citu and others addressed the gathering and condemned Raghuvar Das government for its policies and actions.
They blamed that the increasing firing incidents on farmers and workers is a matter of concern for everyone and the culprits should be punished.
later they handed over a five point charter of demands addressed to the Governor to Deputy Commissioner Hazaribagh.
The opposition is demanding judicial probe of the incident, a compensation of `25 lakhs to the family members of all the deceased and 5 lakhs to the injures, punishment to all the officials engaged in beating the people of five villages of Barkagaon after the firing incident and filing murder case against the district officials.