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07/19/2026 July 19, 2026 Police break up protest in Madhya Pradesh In news of other protests in India, in the central Madhya Pradesh state on
07/19/2026 July 19, 2026 Police break up protest in Madhya Pradesh In news of other protests in India, in the central Madhya Pradesh state on Sunday the police cleared the site of a 15-day protest and sent demonstrators back to their villages, media reports said.
The villagers were protesting a planned project to transfer water from the Ken River to the Betwa River and other development projects in Madhya Pradesh's Chhatarpur district. The protest, led largely by tribal women, began on July 3 with demonstrators alleging irregularities in land acquisition, rehabilitation, environmental safeguards and project implementation.
According to the Times of India newspaper, protest leader Divya Ahirwar alleged that police arrived early Sunday and detained activist Amit Bhatnagar, who had been on hunger strike for 11 days, along
with several protesters. Elsewhere in the northern Uttarakhand state, the government relented and suspended the felling of more than 4,000 trees for a road widening project in Dehradun city after massive public protests.
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