Mysore, Mar 9 (UNI) Members of the Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha (KRRS) drawn from all over the state today resolved to fight for justice not only on the Cauvery water sharing issue but also to assert their rights and force both State and the Union government to act in their favour.
A massive rally was organised in the city with thousands of farmers and their leaders walked from Deputy Commissioner Office to the Town Hall. They held mock drills of the farmers committing suicide due to mounting debts and adverse affects of Cauvery Tribunal's final award.
Inaugurating the convention, writer and President of Sarvodaya Karnataka Party (SKP) Devanuru Mahadeva said that various government had driven the farmers to desperation due to their lopsided policies and senselessly adopting the World Bank and WTO imposed liberalisation policy.
Former Union Minister and Mysore District Cauvery Kriya Samithi President V Sreenivasa Prasad urged the farmers to unite to fight for the justice and should bring pressure on the Union Government to secure justifiable share.
Former Irrigation Minister H N Nanje Gowda explained how the tribunal had 'betrayed' the farmers of Karnataka.
KRRS President K S Puttanaiah said the convention had made an attempt to reassure the farmers who have been facing severe problems since many years and resorting to suicide. The government should come out with a workable formula to write off all the farm loans, he demanded.
The convention opposed acquisition of cultivable land for Special Economic Zones.
Meanwhile, agitators continued their protests in the Cauvery basin districts of Mandya, Mysore and Chamarajanagar districts.
In Mandya, various organisations including industrial workers of Somanhalli of Maddur taluk taken out a procession with tractors and lorries against the verdict.
Agitation were held at Malavalli in the district led by Cauvery Hitha Rakshna Samithi President G Made Gowda and Kanakapura MP, Tejeswani Ramesh.
The relay hunger strike continued at Mandya, Pandavapura, Srirangapatna, K R Pet and other villages in the district.
The agitation and protests continued in Mysore and Chamarajanagara district also.
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A massive rally was organised in the city with thousands of farmers and their leaders walked from Deputy Commissioner Office to the Town Hall. They held mock drills of the farmers committing suicide due to mounting debts and adverse affects of Cauvery Tribunal's final award.
Inaugurating the convention, writer and President of Sarvodaya Karnataka Party (SKP) Devanuru Mahadeva said that various government had driven the farmers to desperation due to their lopsided policies and senselessly adopting the World Bank and WTO imposed liberalisation policy.
Former Union Minister and Mysore District Cauvery Kriya Samithi President V Sreenivasa Prasad urged the farmers to unite to fight for the justice and should bring pressure on the Union Government to secure justifiable share.
Former Irrigation Minister H N Nanje Gowda explained how the tribunal had 'betrayed' the farmers of Karnataka.
KRRS President K S Puttanaiah said the convention had made an attempt to reassure the farmers who have been facing severe problems since many years and resorting to suicide. The government should come out with a workable formula to write off all the farm loans, he demanded.
The convention opposed acquisition of cultivable land for Special Economic Zones.
Meanwhile, agitators continued their protests in the Cauvery basin districts of Mandya, Mysore and Chamarajanagar districts.
In Mandya, various organisations including industrial workers of Somanhalli of Maddur taluk taken out a procession with tractors and lorries against the verdict.
Agitation were held at Malavalli in the district led by Cauvery Hitha Rakshna Samithi President G Made Gowda and Kanakapura MP, Tejeswani Ramesh.
The relay hunger strike continued at Mandya, Pandavapura, Srirangapatna, K R Pet and other villages in the district.
The agitation and protests continued in Mysore and Chamarajanagara district also.
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