Former minister holds day-long hunger strike in Shivamogga

Shivamogga: Former minister and Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) spokesman Kimmane Ratnakar on Friday observed a day-long hunger strike in Thirthahalli in Shivamogga district to protest the amendments passed to the agriculture legislations by the central government and the proposed change to farm laws in Karnataka.
Ratnakar said that the legislations would sound the death knell for the farming community. On the controversy surrounding former All India Congress Committee (AICC) president Rahul Gandhi in Uttar Pradesh, Ratnakar said, “The BJP unit in Uttar Pradesh has no humanity.In Karnataka, the BJP is muzzling the press. A day will come when all this will end.”
Meanwhile, Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha (KRRS) members and activists on Friday assembled at Gopi Circle in Shivamogga town to protest the amendments made to the APMC and land reform laws by the Centre. KRRS working president HR Basavarajappa said that Mahatma Gandhi’s dream of ‘Rama Rajya’ had been turned into a corporate state. “They are allowing for conversion of land and making it easy for private players and making life difficult for farmers,” he said.
Meanwhile, members of the Shivamogga District Congress Committee protested the gangrape in Hathras, UttarPradesh, while Akhila Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad activists sought capital punishment for the accused.