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Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs H.K. Patil said connected Wednesday that Chief Minister Siddaramaiah would seat meetings with farmers and mill managements successful the adjacent 2 days to resoluteness the deadlock implicit sugarcane prices.
Addressing protesting farmers successful Gurlapur successful Belagavi district, helium said that the Chief Minister would conscionable farmers successful the Vidhana Soudha successful Bengaluru connected Thursday and conscionable mill representatives connected Friday. He said that helium sympathised with their origin and that the State authorities was acceptable to resoluteness the issue. Deputy Commissioner Mohammad Roshan, SP Bheemashankar S Guled and different officers accompanied the Minister.
“The Chief Minister has asked maine to clasp talks with you and larn astir your problems. He has besides asked maine to contented instructions to officials to guarantee that farmers bash not endure immoderate inconvenience,’’ Mr. Patil said. He urged them to extremity the onslaught and enactment guardant their demands earlier the Chief Minister successful Bengaluru instead.
Sri Shashikant Guruji of Inchigeri Shakha Math said that the farmers would retreat the protestation lone if the State authorities announced a higher terms connected Thursday. He criticised territory in-charge Minister Satish Jarkiholi and Minister Laxmi Hebbalkar, who hailed from Belagavi and owned sweetener factories, for not gathering protesting farmers successful Belagavi. The seer besides demanded that different gathering of sweetener mill managements. He urged the Deputy Commissioner to clasp different gathering of farmers and factories successful Belagavi, to finalise the price. A gathering convened by the Deputy Commissioner connected Tuesday had failed to resoluteness the issue.
“If we wantonness the protestation and spell to Bengaluru to conscionable the Chief Minister, it volition nonstop a incorrect connection to our chap farmers,” the seer said.
Chunappa Pujari, farmers’ leader, asked the State authorities to guarantee that the factories paid the terms announced by the government. He suggested that if the factories failed to wage little than ₹3,500 per tonne, the State authorities should wage the equilibrium to farmers, connected the lines of the inducement being paid to beverage producers.
Mr. Patil invited a delegation of farmers from Belagavi to the Chief Minister’s gathering successful Bengaluru and said that helium would articulation the meeting.
