The Arya Ediga Rashtriya Mahamandali has set June 19 as the deadline for lifting the ban on toddy tapping and its sale in Karnataka.
Pranavananda Swami, national president of the mahamandali, who concluded his first leg of the 175-km long padayatra on Wednesday, was addressing a press conference in Kalaburagi on Thursday.
“If the State Government fails to fulfill our pending demand by June 19, we will go on an indefinite hunger strike outside the Deputy Commissioner’s office in Kalaburagi from June 20 and block the State Highways across Kalyana Karnataka and north Karnataka region on June 21,” he cautioned.
