Chief Minister Siddaramaiah visited the site of protest by farmers in Mandya on Tuesday, October 31, and assured to protect the interests of Karnataka’s farmers in the Cauvery dispute.
Mr. Siddaramaiah, who was on a day-long visit to Mandya on Tuesday to inaugurate an inter-district journalists’ conference and hold a progress review meeting in the town, drove to the site of protest by Mandya Jilla Raitha Horata Samithi.
He told the protestors, whose agitation against release of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu had begun more than 56 days ago, that the State government will not cling to power by sacrificing the farmers’ interests.
