Tourists on their way to Mysuru to witness the Jamboo Savari, marking the grand finale of Dasara festival, were put to inconvenience as Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha (KRRS) staged a road blockade at eight places including the Mysuru-Bengaluru highway on Wednesday in protest against the State Government’s failure to address their long-pending demands including payment of ₹4,500 for every tonne of sugarcane.
The farmers turned up at the designated spots on the highways leading to Mysuru with sugarcane trucks, carts, tractors, disrupting traffic movement.
