Led by former MLA Kanu Kalsariya and Congress MLA from Talaja, Kanu Baraiya, around 1,000 farmers of 11 villages of Talaja and Mahuva talukas of Bhavnagar district forced UltraTech Cement Limited to suspend mining of limestone from their villages on Wednesday.
This is for the eighth time that villagers have forced the company to stop mining in the last six months even as the farmers warned that they will boycott political leaders if the government did not make its stand clear in a week.