As the political atmosphere continues to be tense in Madhya Pradesh following violent agitation by farmers, a Congress leader has added fuel to fire by saying that farmers will now fire back bullets on the BJP government in the state under the leadership of Pradesh Congress.

In a provocative speech, Congress leader Dilip Mishra said under the leadership of Madhya Pradesh Opposition leader Ajay Singh, farmers of Satna district will fire on the state government.

"Under Rahul bhaiya's leadership, honourable Ajay Singh's leadership, we pay our tributes to the farmers (who died in police firing). Our tribute is with a promise that under Opposition leader Rahul bhaiya's leadership the time has come that farmers of Satna district will also fire at the government," Mishra said.

Alleging that Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan's government wants to kill democracy openly, he said, "I appeal through this meeting that those who killed democracy, those who killed Pradesh's farmers and fired at them, Madhya Pradesh's public will also fire at the government".

Ajay Singh, also known as Rahul bhaiyya, is a close confidant of senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh, and is the Leader of Opposition in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly.

Earlier also, few Congress leaders came under fire for inciting violence in Mandsaur during the protests. Congress leader DP Dhakar was caught on camera telling the youth to set any vehicle they come across on fire, to have the courage to face anything that comes their way and not to be scared of the police.

Farmers have been staging a protest in Madhya Pradesh demanding better prices for their produce and also a waiver on loan repayments.

The Mandsaur-Neemuch region, about 300 km from the state capital Bhopal, became the nerve centre of the gathering storm of farmer distress. Later, protests spread to some other parts of the state.

In Mandsaur, five persons were killed in police firing during a farmers' protest on June 6.

To placate agitated farmers in the aftermath of the police firing, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan had sat on a fast on Saturday which ended the next day.

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