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Heightening their absorption to the acquisition of workplace lands for the projected Bidadi Integrated Township project, leaders of the absorption BJP connected Wednesday visited the affected villages to explicit solidarity with farmers who are acceptable to suffer their lands and denote that the BJP-JD(S) conjugation volition scrap the task if it comes to powerfulness successful 2028.
Leader of Opposition successful the Assembly R. Ashok, who was portion of the delegation with Leader of the Opposition successful the Council Chalavadi Narayanaswamy, BJP State president B.Y. Vijayendra and elder legislators S. Suresh Kumar and C.N. Ashwath Narayan, told mediapersons aft gathering Bidadi farmers that determination was nary constituent successful Chief Minister D. K. Shivakumar continuing with “forced” onshore acquisition.
Short term
“It is for definite that Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar cannot instrumentality this task arsenic helium conscionable has 1 and a fractional years near successful his term,” Mr. Ashok maintained. Accusing the Congress authorities of wrongly claiming that the lands being acquired were barren, helium said each the onshore parcels successful Bidadi were fertile.
Mr. Ashok, who visited a superior co-operative beverage postulation centre successful Bidadi, said the information showed that astir 1 crore litres of beverage were being procured annually from the country by the Karnataka Milk Federation (KMF), with payments of astir ₹1 crore. Similarly, the sericultural assemblage successful the country was earning a gross of ₹35 crore a year.
On rebuilding lives
Seeking to debunk the statement that farmers could rebuild their lives with the compensation, Mr. Ashok cited the illustration of his ain family, “My household was fixed a compensation of ₹65,000 for 65 acres that was acquired agelong agone successful Jalahalli of Bengaluru. But not adjacent a azygous paisa from this compensation is near with us.”
He accused Congress's apical leader, Rahul Gandhi, of practising treble standards by remarking that Mr. Gandhi, who had visited the Andaman-Nicobar Islands to explicit interest implicit biology demolition implicit the larboard project, was present soundless implicit his ain enactment government’s determination to get fertile workplace lands for township project.
BJP State president B.Y. Vijayendra took objection to Mr. Shivakumar claiming that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had hailed him for taking up Bidadi Township task and asked him not to resistance Mr. Modi’s sanction for his ain selfish governmental interests.
‘Using goondas’
Mr. Vijayendra alleged that the Congress authorities was utilizing goondas to terrorise the resisting farmers. He urged the Chief Minister to desist from specified amerciable measures to forcibly get land.
