KOZHIKODE: The police registered a case against a farmers’ community for staging a poster campaign against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Kozhikode Kasaba police kept five Kisan Mahasangh activists for 12 hours in preventive custody for trying to stage a protest by sticking protests on the day Modi arrives in the district. A case was registered and were released later. K V Biju, an activist of the farmers’ organisations said they were taken into custody forcibly when they campaigned peacefully and in a democratic manner.

The pamphlets carried Modi Kisan Virodhi (anti-farmers Modi), he should face a blow in the polls for the suicide of 70000 farmers. He has deceived farmers and alleged that its actions over the past five years had been detrimental to the peasants.