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Minister for Forests, Ecology, and Environment Eshwar B. Khandre faced farmers’ ire successful Mysuru connected Monday (October 27, 2025) implicit the death of a idiosyncratic owed to a tiger attack successful Saragur.
Rajashekar (53) was killed by a tiger adjacent Mulluru colony adjacent to Nugu wildlife sanctuary connected October 26, 2025. This came adjacent connected the heels of a akin incidental astir 10 days agone successful which different husbandman was mauled and is battling for beingness successful a backstage infirmary successful Mysuru. Both incidents took spot successful Saragur and has perturbed the section people.
Mr. Khandre, who reached K.R. Hospital successful the metropolis to wage his past respects to the deceased, was surrounded by farmers who staged an agitation and accused the wood section unit of dereliction of duty. The farmers expressed their outrage implicit recurring human-animal struggle and wanted an imperishable solution to it.
Mr. Khandre said that successful lawsuit determination was dereliction of work connected portion of the officials successful trapping and tranquilising the tiger contempt complaints from the public, enactment would beryllium initiated against them.
Minister defends Mysuru visit
Questions were besides raised implicit the determination to displacement the assemblage of Rajashekar to Mysuru for postmortem contempt the installation being disposable astatine Saragur.
The underlying accusation was that it was done to shield the curate from nationalist anger. The farmers besides expressed their angst that the minister, who was adjacent Saragur connected Sunday (October 26), did not sojourn the spot of the incident.
However, Mr. Khandre said that helium learnt that the assemblage was brought to Mysuru portion helium was successful the metropolis and hence decided to wage his past respects. “It is simply a fallacy to suggest that the assemblage was shifted to Mysuru for my sake,” helium added.
KRRS president Badagalpura Nagendra sought ₹50 lakh arsenic compensation to the household of the deceased and demanded that immoderate cultivation loan, if availed by Rajashekar, should besides beryllium waived off.
Curb tourism activities
The Karnataka State Sugarcane Farmers Association president H. Bhagyaraj attributed the summation successful tiger attacks successful the portion to tourism promotion and urged the curate to discourage tourism activities successful the region.
“You are promoting tourism enactment including safari for the moneyed radical from the cities and it is the section radical surviving adjacent to the forests who are paying the terms owed to situation disturbance,” said Mr. Bhagyaraj.
Government should instrumentality steps to curb tourism activities successful the wood portion to minimise struggle situation. Apart from resorts, determination is amerciable mining successful the country and the authorities should ace down connected it, said Mr. Bhagyaraj.
In a related development, H.D. Kote MLA Anil Chikkamadu came nether occurrence by farmers who surrounded him and expressed their ire implicit the decease of Rajashekar. The MLA, who visited the spot connected Sunday, faced the wrath of the section assemblage who said that they feared for their lives owed to escalation successful human-animal conflict.
