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Accusing the State authorities of neglecting the agrarian situation successful North Karnataka, BJP State president B.Y. Vijayendra connected Friday said the Congress medication had failed to code the urgent concerns of farmers babelike connected the Tungabhadra bid area.
Addressing presspersons astatine the party’s State bureau here, helium said the BJP would motorboat a bid of district- and taluk-level protests demanding contiguous measures to enactment maize growers and farmers awaiting h2o merchandise for the 2nd crop.
Mr Vijayendra said the enactment would property the authorities to unfastened procurement centres without delay. He reiterated that if h2o could not beryllium released for the 2nd crop, the authorities should supply compensation of ₹25,000 per acre to each affected farmers.
Crest gates
Recalling the long-pending installation of 32 caller crest gates for the Tungabhadra dam, helium said the enactment had not progressed contempt earlier assurances by Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar that Karnataka would instrumentality up the task independently. He besides sought urgent funds for repairs of the near and close slope canals to forestall h2o nonaccomplishment owed to seepage.
The BJP had decided to finalise its agitation plans by November 26, and the party’s raitha morcha president A.S. Patil Nadahalli would circuit the affected districts to gully up the schedule, helium said.
Alleging repeated lapses successful handling harvest loss, Mr. Vijayendra said the authorities had neither responded to sustained protests by sugarcane growers nor addressed the problems of maize farmers.
He criticised the Congress authorities for restricting its absorption to Bengaluru and failing to present compensation weeks aft announcing relief.
