He was responding to an impromptu discussion on the death of three farmers in Mathura and Aligarh districts in violence to secure better compensation for land acquired by the Uttar Pradesh government for a highway expressway from Noida, a Delhi suburb, to Agra.
Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav was agitated that police did not even register a case of deaths caused by unprovoked police firing on the agitating farmers while others sought an inquiry and arrest of the senior police officers present at the time of the firing, expressing concern at forcible acquisition of land from farmers in not only Uttar Pradesh but in many states.
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