Arya Ediga Community seer Pranavananda Swamiji declared an indefinite hunger protest in front of Deputy Commissioner’s office in Kalaburagi from June 20 to demand the State government to allow the Edigas to sell hooch.
Addressing a press conference in Yadgir on Wednesday, Swamiji said that the selling of hooch is a clan business of Edigas. But, the State government has presently imposed a ban on selling hooch. Therefore, the majority of the families from the Ediga community have been suffering difficulties even to meet family needs. “Thus, I conducted a padayatra of 128 kilometer in Kalaburagi district to demand the State government to lift the ban on selling hooch. But, however, there was no favourable decision by the government. Hence, I have now decided to conduct an indefinite hunger protest to solve this issue,” he explained.
He said that including Actor Suman and MLA U.T. Khader, Gulihatti Shekhar and former Minister Malikayya Guttedar, around 500 people from the Ediga community are expected to take part in the protest. “If anything goes wrong, the State government is responsible,” he warned.
