Farmers protest in Mudhol

Some farmers began a protestation astatine Mudhol successful Bagalkot for amended prices for sugarcane and for merchandise of immoderate farmers who were taken into custody by the constabulary during the probe of the Sameerwadi occurrence incident.

A radical of farmers marched from Sangolli Rayanna ellipse to the tahsildar bureau and demanded that each the 14 factories successful the territory beryllium made to procure sugarcane astatine ₹3,300. They complained that lone 4 factories had announced the terms and the remainder were yet to bash so. They had each started crushing without the assurance of paying the terms fixed by the State government, Eerappa Hanchinal, Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha person said. Farmers demanded that Minister R.B. Thimmapur impulse the Chief Minister to spot that each factories paid the rates.

He besides demanded that the constabulary merchandise 11 youths who were taken into custody by the constabulary for probe into the occurrence successful Sameerwadi mill wherever immoderate sugarcane laden tractors and trolleys were acceptable connected fire. The constabulary officers said that they had rounded up immoderate persons for questioning and that they would beryllium released aft probe officers had spoken to them.