The pyre agitation going on since May 25 at Barkagaon was postponed by the agitators on Sunday evening after getting assurance from DC Mukesh Kumar. DDC Rajesh Pathak met with the agitators as DC representative and talked with them. After being satisfied the members of Barkagaon Intellectual Forum, who were leading the agitation announced to defer the agitation for one month. The agitators sitting on fast unto death on pyre broke their fast by taking glass of juice from the hands of DDC.
DDC informed the agitators that the district administration is ready to talk with them on all issues raised by them. He handed over the letter of DC Mukesh Kumar who is out of station nowadays and said that after 5-6 days DC will return and then the process of talk will become.