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Sri Shashikan Guruji of Inchigeri Shakha Math, who is starring the farmers’ protestation astatine Gurlapur successful Belagavi district, connected Friday announced that the farmers were withdrawing the protestation for higher prices for sugarcane, arsenic they were accepting the compromise look suggested by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah. The farmers leaders said that they would vacate the protestation tract and cooperate with factories successful starting crushing operaions.
“After meetings with factories and farmers successful Bengaluru, the Chief Minister has announced that farmers volition get ₹3,300 per tonne of sugarcane, which includes ₹3,250 by factories and ₹50 contributed by the State government. We judge this and we volition retreat the agitation. I deliberation this is simply a triumph for farmers. But then, we volition commencement the agitation again, during the wintertime league of the Legislature successful Belagavi. If astir 10 lakh farmers tin stitchery earlier the Suvarna Soudha, then, we volition request for different ₹1,000 per tonne,” the seer said. He was addressing the protesting farmers successful Gurlapur adjacent Mudalagi successful Belagavi district. The protestation was going connected for 9 days.
He said that the Gurlapur protestation had achieved respective things. But the foremost among it was that the agitation had agreed farmers’ associations. “There were astir 20 to 30 associations oregon factions. But then, each the farmers representatives joined america successful this protest. We person besides succeeded without going to Bengaluru for the gathering with the Chief Minister,” the seer said. He claimed that the protestation had remained non-violent and based connected the ideology of farmers’ person M.D. Nanjundaswami.
He appealed to farmers to donate ₹5 per tonne to the orphanages of their choice. “I bash not mean to accidental that you should donate to my math,” the seer said.
