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Karnataka’s Sugar Minister Shivanand Patil promised to extremity the deadlock betwixt sugarcane farmers and factories, and resoluteness the contented of pricing successful favour of farmers.
He refused to respond to allegations by immoderate farmers’ leaders that helium is connected the broadside of mill owners, and not the farmers. “I americium not present to respond to allegations, but to resoluteness the issue. I volition sermon assorted aspects of the contented with the farmers and past effort to find solution. We are assured of ending the deadlock soon. I guarantee you that we volition we volition settee it successful favour of farmers,” the Minister said successful Belagavi connected November 6.
He reiterated that the powerfulness to hole just and remunerative terms for sugarcane lies with the Union Government, and that the State Government could bash small astir it.
“However, radical bash not cognize astir the contented successful detail. I americium the Sugar Minister for Karnataka. The Union Sugar Minister is Pralhad Joshi, who is besides from Karnataka. But nary 1 — neither the agitating farmers, nor the media — has mentioned his sanction successful narration to this contented arsenic yet,” Mr. Patil said.
He near for Gurlapur, the tract of the protest, on with Ashok Dalwai, advisor to the CM connected workplace pricing, Deputy Commissioner Mohammad Roshan and Superintendent of Police Bheemashankar S. Guled.
