AGARTALA, June 8 (TIWN): After MP Chief Minister Shivraj Prem Singh Chouhan accused Congress for instigating violence across the state that led 5 persons' to die during protest, Congress along with the whole country holding various protests in Northeast states, badly affected Tripura too. As a part of the protest, Tripura Congress and its youth wing halted railway service that left the passengers to suffer with an unannounced railway-strike. At Agartala Railway Station, no train was allowed to run creating a chaos and confusion among the passengers there. Whereas the passengers had been waiting for hours amidst much confusions, Congress supporters were found strict to continue protest, assuring no train will run on the tracks for the whole day. The overall NE railways service has been paralyzed due to the political strike left the passengers to suffer who came from far away.

After the tragic incident of 5 persons' death, CM said Shivraj Prem Singh Chouhan, "I appeal to my fellow brothers to maintain peace. I am deeply pained by the turn of events today.I stand by families in this hour of grief". In Bhopal, BJP state chief Nandkumar Singh Chouhan said, "With prohibitory orders in place and internet services down, the exact numbers of dead and injured were not known. The injured kept trickling out of the barricaded town bound for hospitals in Indore, some 240 km away.

At least five persons were killed and over a dozen injured when shots were fired during a protest by farmers in Mandsaur district of Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday. Curfew has been clamped in Mandsaur and Pipliamandi and internet connectivity has been severed. The death toll, it is feared, may rise. The farmers were demanding that the government grant them a loan waiver and set a minimum support price for their farm produce.

Though the state government insisted the police and CRPF had not fired at the farmers, survivors of the shooting, and even the BJP state chief, contradicted the government. "I heard gunshots and saw policemen firing at a section of protesters nearest to them," Murli Sharma, one of the injured, told TOI from his hospital bed, adding that policemen beat him with lathis even as he lay bleeding.

Chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan ordered a judicial inquiry and said that anti-social elements, not farmers, were involved in the violence. He announced compensation of Rs 1 crore for the kin of the dead and Rs 5 lakh to those injured. Officials claim shots were fired from within the mob of protesters.

Accusing the Congress of instigating the violence, the CM said, "The deaths in Mandsaur are unfortunate. The demands of farmers have been met. I request them not to be misled by provocation." Congress rejected the charge and called a statewide bandh for Wednesday. "This government is at war with the farmers of our country," said AICC vice-president Rahul Gandhi.

Riots broke out in Pipliamandi on Monday night. Farmers damaged railway tracks and railway crossing gates in Mandsaur, set fire to vehicles and attacked cops. On Tuesday, protesters at Piplia Toll Naka threw stones at police and torched 27 vehicles. Around noon, shots were fired, killing at least five. DM Swatantra K Singh ordered internet shutdown in Mandsaur.

Protesters also set fire to a police check post in Nahargarh. Curfew was clamped in Mandsaur and Pipliamandi and Section 144 is in force in neighbouring Ratlam district.