Chief Minister Siddaramaiah will tour drought-affected areas in Bidar on April 15. He will arrive at the Bidar Air Force base in a special flight at 9 a.m., visit scarcity-hit villages and review drought relief works at a meeting with officers, and leave for Kalaburagi at 2 p.m., said a release.
Farmers to gherao CM
Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha farmers plan to gherao the Chief Minister in Bidar during his visit. “We had requested the CM to come to Bidar only after fulfilling all our demands. But he is coming without keeping his promise. We have thus decided to gherao him,’’ Mallikarjun Swamy, KRRS president, told presspersons here on Wednesday.
Their demands include forcing all sugar factories to pay fair and remunerative price to sugarcane suppliers, releasing pending compensation to all farmers who suffered crop loss in 2014 and 2015, and rolling back the decision to shift the animal polyclinic from Bidar to Arkalgud, the home town of A. Manju, Animal Husbandry Minister.
