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23 May 2008

In power

BJP — Rajasthan

Acted

State government, Rajasthan

The Army, the Rapid Action Force and the CRPF were called out; 10 Army columns moved into the Bharatpur-Karauli-Sawai Madhopur belt, and by 27 May a further 22 Army columns and 76 columns of other security forces were deployed in the affected districts. Arab News reported that the Army blockaded the Karwadi-Pilupura area and cut off food supplies, that mobile signals were jammed and that the state took some news channels off air. Chitleen K Sethi wrote in The Tribune that the Army was called in but never used, and that the protest site was fenced in, water and electricity to the villages feeding the protesters were cut off and mobile phone jammers were installed [5][2][1][3][4]

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