Farmers from Tamil Nadu, including a woman, on Wednesday climbed onto a mobile tower while protesting at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar over demands of better prices for their crops and the river interlinking issue.

While many farmers from Tamil Nadu gathered at Jantar Mantar, some of them climbed nearby trees and a mobile tower, according to the police.  They were brought down by police officials who used a fire brigade crane to bring the farmers back to the ground from the mobile tower.

“Around 50 people have come for interlinking of rivers. Two of them tried climbing a mobile tower but they returned back to the ground,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (New Delhi) Devesh Kumar Mahla said, adding that some of them tried climbing trees at the site.

Around 100 farmers from Tamil Nadu participated in the demonstration where they demanded a doubling of their income from farm produce, a pension of Rs 5,000, individual insurance, and interlinking of all rivers in India.

“If our demands were not met they would contest the Lok Sabha polls against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Varanasi constituency,” the farmers said. A senior official of the Delhi Fire Services (DFS) said that they got a call about the protest and reached the location with sky lifts following which the farmers were removed from the mobile tower.

“First call we received was at 9.34 am that some people climbed a mobile tower at Jantar Mantar. Our rescue team rushed to the spot and rescued two people from the first location. We received another call from Kerala Bhawan that four persons have climbed another mobile tower. ”