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Union Minister for Heavy Industries and Steel H. D. Kumaraswamy has accused Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah of shirking his work to resoluteness the problems faced by sugarcane farmers by penning to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and seeking the Centre’s involution successful the matter.
Responding to reporters’ queries successful Mysuru connected November 7, Mr. Kumaraswamy alleged that the Congress authorities successful Karnataka has nary volition of responding to the hardships of farmers, and is trying to pin the blasted connected the Centre to evade responsibility.
Mr. Kumaraswamy is the person of the JD(S), which has forged an confederation with the BJP.
“If the Chief Minister genuinely wants to lick the issue, it is simply a precise tiny matter. But, the Chief Minister is playing politics,” helium said portion seeking to cognize which State had sought the Prime Minister’s assistance to resoluteness the problems faced by sugarcane farmers.
Mr. Kumaraswamy recalled the sugarcane farmers’ plight during 2006, erstwhile the JD(S)-BJP conjugation was successful power. Among different things, a husbandman had committed suicide. But, helium claimed to person ensured that a enactment terms of ₹25,000 per hectare was paid to farmers whose sugarcane harvest had dried.
Claiming that a full of ₹248 crore had been released then, erstwhile the State Government’s fund was lone astir ₹34,000 crore, Mr. Kumaraswamy said Mr. Siddaramaiah tin besides instrumentality a determination to bail retired the farmers if helium had interest for them.
Referring to the all-party gathering convened by the State Government to sermon the issue, Mr. Kumaraswamy said determination was nary request for specified an exercise. The Chief Minister tin himself instrumentality a determination by holding talks with farmers, helium said.
The JD(S) person said helium does not judge that the State Government is facing a funds crunch, arsenic enactment leaders had been appointed arsenic heads of Guarantee Schemes Implementation Committees and fixed Cabinet-rank. “Such appointments had been made astatine the territory and taluk levels too,” helium said.
Lobby of sweetener mill owners
Mr. Kumaraswamy said the Chief Minister ‘may be’ succumbing to the lobby of sweetener mill owners, who are besides Ministers.
Referring to media reports that leaders belonging to each the 3 parties ain sweetener factories, Mr. Kumaraswamy said helium was besides alert astir enactment leaders owning sweetener factories, but sought to marque it wide that their enactment person Bandeppa Kashempur had sold his sweetener mill astir 3 years ago.
“The Chief Minister should not surrender to unit by the sweetener lobby, but enactment towards protecting the interests of farmers,” the Union Minister said.
