Cops are assaulted, Bittu, 200 Congmen booked
Thursday, 01/10/2015
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Bathinda : Ludhiana MP Ravneet Singh Bittu along with hundreds of Youth Congress leaders and workers was cane-charged by police here on Wednesday as they forcefully tried to enter the Mini-Secretariat, jumping the barricades. The Youth Congress activists were here to lodge their protest against the state government, seeking higher compensation for the whitefly pest attacked cotton growers and also the registration of case against Agriculture Minister Tota Singh whom they blamed for the purchase of spurious pesticide. Bittu and his men had a scuffle with police.
Earlier, the protesters jumped the gates and scaled the walls of the office of Agriculture Department located here on Dabwali road. The unruly Congressmen also smashed down the door at the office as the police had failed to stop them from entering the premises. Bittu along with his men started holding a protest march which the police tried to intercept at different check points but violent Bittu and his men allegedly thrashed cops and kept on marching ahead. After reaching outside the Mini Secretariat, when Bittu attempted to jump the barricades, where the naka was being supervised by SSP Indermohan Singh Bhatti himself, Bittu had a scuffle with cops.
