Police foil KPRS attempt to gherao Chief Minister in Kalaburagi
The Hindu
KPRS members attempt to intercept Chief Minister's convoy in Kalaburagi during protest for red gram crop compensation.
The police foiled an attempt made by Karnataka Prantha Raitha Sangha members to intercept the Chief Minister’s convoy and gherao him in Kalaburagi on Sunday during his visit to inaugurate the 371-bed Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Research.
KPRS members, led by its district president Sharanabasappa Mamshetty, sat on the road near Annapurna Cross to block the Chief Minister’s convoy. However, the official officials dragged and lifted them into buses and detained them.
The KPRS members planned a protest against the State government demanding the immediate release of compensation to the distressed farming community that suffered losses due to red gram crop damage this season.
The agitators said that red gram crop on around 2 lakh acres of the total 6,06,880 hectares under the crop in the district have been damaged.
Farmers suicide have been showing an increasing trend in the district and it is the responsibility of the State government to ensure that farmers in distress due to crop loss did not commit suicide, Mr. Mamshetty said.
Eight protestors who were detained and shifted to Farhatabad Police Station detained were later released.
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