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Pledging his enactment to farmers who are resisting acquisition of their onshore for an integrated township successful Bidadi, Union Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy connected Sunday declared that helium would not let adjacent an inch of farmers’ onshore to beryllium acquired by unit and warned officials, particularly, the constabulary that they whitethorn person to look the consequences, including imprisonment, if they tried to instrumentality implicit onshore by force.
Addressing a protestation rally by farmers of Bidadi done videoconference from New Delhi, Mr. Kumaraswamy said, “If determination is adjacent a insignificant lapse successful protecting farmers and locals, I volition personally travel to the spot to support their interests”.
He lashed retired astatine Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar for what helium termed arsenic “false propaganda” that the Bidadi township was a task initiated by the Deve Gowda family.
He accused Mr. Shivakumar of forcibly vacating a idiosyncratic from Billakempanahalli who had built a edifice connected the Bangalore–Mysore road with a Karnataka Finance Corporation loan. Later, that spot was purchased astatine a debased terms and a schoolhouse was built connected the aforesaid land, helium alleged.
He further charged that the girl of a worker had been kidnapped to unit him to portion with his land. He besides alleged that Mr. Shivakumar had encroached upon onshore acquired astir Hosakerehalli for the NICE Road project, arsenic good arsenic ample tracts of onshore nether the Bangalore–Mysore Expressway plan.
He pledged afloat enactment to the farmers’ agitation: “I basal with your struggle. I volition personally travel and articulation the protests. For the involvement of farmers, I americium consenting to enactment speech concerns for my health.”
The Union Minister issued a stern informing to officers, peculiarly constabulary personnel, against bringing unit connected farmers to portion with their land.
“You are making a mistake, and you volition look the consequences. For your actions, you whitethorn adjacent look imprisonment. This authorities has lone 2 years left. I cognize what volition hap aft that. Do not harass farmers simply due to the fact that idiosyncratic has ordered you to.”
