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Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha (KRRS), led by Badagalapura Nagendra, held a district-level normal to people World Farmers’ Day and impulse the Centre to rollback its 3 projected “anti-farmer” legislations, astatine Ilwala connected the outskirts of Mysuru connected December 23.
The farmers, who acceptable occurrence to copies of the 3 projected legislations, besides sent a memorandum to Prime Minister Narendra Modi done the Deputy Commissioner of Mysuru.
The memorandum urged the Centre to retreat the draught Seeds Bill 2025 and the Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2025, too the National Policy Framework connected Agricultural Marketing.
The memorandum described the 3 pieces of projected legislations arsenic not lone arsenic “anti-farmer”, but besides arsenic “black workplace laws”.
It besides urged the Centre to enact a instrumentality guaranteeing Minimum Support Price (MSP) to each cultivation nutrient successful accordance with the recommendations of M.S. Swaminathan to hole the MSP astatine a broad outgo of accumulation positive 50%.
The KRRS urged the Centre to fulfill each the demands raised by farmers during the historical Delhi farmers’ agitation.
The farmers’ outfit besides prevailed upon the Union authorities to not lone desist from entering the Indo-US commercialized agreement, but instantly halt imports of maize, sugar, beverage by-products, fabric and edible oils. The commercialized statement and the import of commodities threatened the interests of section farmers, KRRS stated.
The different demands enactment distant by the farmers’ assemblage included waiver of the full workplace loan, with the Union and State governments sharing the load equally. The KRRS besides sought an extremity to the harassment of farmers by banks and lending institutions portion besides ensuring casual entree to caller loans for farmers.
The Centre was urged to supply a monthly pension of ₹5,000 to each farmers supra the property of 60.
Meanwhile, the KRRS has urged the authorities to guarantee an mean terms of ₹400 per kg for tobacco.
With respect to sugarcane, the farmers’ assemblage has urged the Centre to hole a terms of ₹5,000 per tonne based connected a betterment complaint of 9.5%.
Puttannaiah’s statue
Though the KRRS had planned to unveil the statue of precocious farmers’ person Puttannaiah connected Farmers’ Day, which besides marks his birthday, the organisers said the programme had been pushed to February 2026.
According to Mr. Nagendra, the authorities, who had identified the onshore for the statue, person promised to manus implicit the onshore successful the coming days.
