Sugarcane farmers of Mysuru and Chamarajanagar districts staged a demonstration in front of the Deputy Commissioner’s office in Siddharthanagar in the city on Tuesday demanding payment of last season’s sugarcane dues.
Contending that they had not been paid the additional ₹150 per tonne announced by the State government following their 39-day-long dharna in Bengaluru, the farmers, under the aegis of Karnataka Sugarcane Farmers Association, marched towards the Deputy Commissioner’s office armed with a memorandum of demands, only to be stopped by the police near the entrance.
After a verbal exchange between the farmers and the police, the farmers shouted slogans against the police and thr government. Later, they were allowed to assemble in the portico of the Deputy Commissioner’s office, where Additional Deputy Commissioner Kavitha Rajaram received their memorandum and assured to bring to their demands to the notice of Deputy Commissioner K.V. Rajendra and hold a meeting to resolve them.
