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Members of immoderate farmers associations took retired a protestation march successful Belagavi connected Tuesday demanding the reopening of the Jai Kisan Private Farm Produce Market.
The State authorities closed it down aft an enquiry revealed that it violated 11 conditions laid down by the Department of Agricultural Marketing.
The enquiry was ordered aft complaints came from the Krishik Samaj and different farmers groups.
On Tuesday, however, the protestors said that closure of the backstage marketplace has caused them inconvenience. They said that their choices for selling their nutrient person reduced, arsenic their nutrient is nary longer fetching remunerative prices.
They demanded that the marketplace beryllium reopened arsenic soon arsenic possible.
BJP MLA Abhay Patil, who joined the protest, said that initially, helium opposed the backstage marketplace saying that determination was nary request for it, erstwhile determination was an APMC marketplace successful the metropolis already.
“In 2018, I wrote a missive to the State authorities opposing the backstage market. But then, I changed my caput aft seeing that it is benefiting farmers. Traders and farmers convinced maine to enactment their cause. Also, the Union authorities has passed a instrumentality allowing specified backstage markets,” helium said.
“I consciousness that we should supply a prime to farmers arsenic to wherever they volition merchantability their ware and wherever they get amended prices. Why adjacent the backstage market?” helium asked.
He besides said that the closure process utilized by the territory medication officials was illegal.
He said that the Belagavi Urban Development Authority cancelled the onshore conversion bid for the marketplace which was beyond its jurisdiction and that revoking the licence was not arsenic per established procedure.
Mr. Patil got into an altercation with Police Commissioner Borase Bhushan Gulabrao and Deputy Commissioner Mohammed Roshan implicit the non- practice of officials with protestors.
Mr. Roshan said that the respective section officials took enactment arsenic per rules successful revoking the licence.
The protestors dispersed aft submitting a memorandum to the Deputy Commissioner. He told them that helium volition pass their interest to the State government.
