1.45 pm: BJP members’ stage ‘dharna’ in Assembly over plight of cane growers. >Read more .
1.30 pm: Breaking tradition Council Chairperson, D.S. Shankaramurthy allows discussion on issue before question hour.
1.20 pm: Leader of opposition in Legislative Council, K.S. Eshwarappa demands Govt to pay sugarcane farmers arrears and recover it later after auctioning the seized sugar from factories. He wanted it taken up as adjournment motion. >Read more .
1.10 pm: Two farmers committed suicide in Mandya. Unable to pay debts, he died after facing severe financial problems. >Read more .
12.55 pm: Govt. is favouring sugar factories, Shettar charges. Opposition appeals to the Govt. to hold session in Belagavi for one month.
12.45 pm: Jagadish Shettar accuses the State Government of failing to keep promises. For the past two years the Govt. has failed to come to the rescue of sugarcane growers.
12.34 pm: Congress members raise slogans against the Narendra Modi-led Union Government.
12.32 pm: BJP (opposition in the assembly) stormed the well.
12.31 pm: Chief Minister’s statements will not help farmers: Jagadish Shettar
12.15 pm: Pandemonium in the Assembly as Opposition fires the Siddaramaiah-led government over farmer suicides in Karnataka.
12.00 pm: Monsoon session begins in Belagavi. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah condoles the death of farmers. Assembly observes one-minute silence.
11.45 am: Chief Minister to give a decision on the sugarcane farmers’ issue by 1 p.m.
11:15 am: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah called an all-Minister's meeting on the agitation by sugarcane farmers’ in Belagavi Circuit House today.
10:58 am: The multi-crore single lottery scam, which led to suspension of Bengaluru’s Additional Police Commissioner Alok Kumar, will also figure prominently during the session, as the state government has decided to order a Central Bureau of Investigation probe retrospectively.
10:55 am: The Maharashtra Ekikaran Samithi has organised “Maha Melava” of pro-Maharashtra Marathi speaking people at Maratha Mandir in the city at 12 noon to oppose conducting of legislature session in Belagavi at a time when the Supreme Court was yet to decide on the long-pending boundary dispute and claims of Maharashtra on Belagavi along with towns and hundreds of villages along the Karnatana-Maharashtra boundary.
10:50 am: KSRTC buses seen in large numbers. Photo: Bhagya Prakash K.
10: 47 am: Farmers’ associations threaten to storm the Suvarna Vidhana Soudha, the venue of the 10-day session, if the Congress government led by the Chief Minister failed to make a categorical announcement on sugarcane price dues by 2 p.m. today. >Read more
10:45 am: Heavy security arrangements in place outside Suvarna Soudha in Belagavi. Photo: Bhagya Prakas K.
10:35 am: The three-week session is being held in two phases — from June 29 to July 10 in this northern city, about 510 km from Bengaluru, and from July 13 to 24 in the state capital.
10:30 am: The Karnataka legislature’s monsoon session, beginning in Belagavi in a few hours, is set to be stormy with the opposition parties resolving to corner the ruling Congress on several issues, especially suicides by sugarcane farmers over non-payment of dues and the lottery scam.
