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The Federation of Farmers’ Organisations and the State Sugarcane Growers’ Association person powerfully condemned the suspension of advocator V. Ravikumar by the State Bar Council.
Expressing anguish implicit the suspension of Ravikumar, an biology activist, Baradanapura Nagaraj, organising caput of the Federation Attihalli Devaraj and the territory wide caput of the Sugarcane Growers’ Association, successful a associated connection here, described the suspension of Ravikumar by the Bar Council arsenic a “conspiracy aimed astatine suppressing his ongoing conflict to support Kabini backwaters and to reason onshore grabbers and edifice mafia”.
Mr. Ravikumar, a Mysuru-based advocate, has been relentlessly warring for the extortion of land, water, forests, wildlife, and the situation portion lasting firmly for farmers’ cause, the connection said.
They said Mr. Ravikumar was not conscionable a lawyer, but besides a husbandman and a invaluable plus to the State. “Silencing a lawyer, who raises his dependable for information and justness amounts to an insult to the antiauthoritarian system,” they said successful the statement.
Issuing a informing that the farming assemblage volition not tolerate it, the farmers’ bodies demanded that the State Bar Council instantly revoke the suspension bid against advocator Ravikumar.
“If the bid is not withdrawn, the State Sugarcane Growers’ Association, on with different farmers’ organisations and biology groups, volition motorboat an indefinite sit-in protestation and satyagraha successful beforehand of the Mahatma Gandhi statue adjacent Mysuru tribunal complete,” they said successful the statement.
“We volition not halt our conflict till justness is delivered to Ravikumar,” Mr. Devaraj and Mr. Nagaraj said successful the associated property statement.
