Bengaluru, Nov 19: Thousands of farmers, especially sugar cane growers, staging agitation in Freedom Park in the City on Monday demanding payment of dues by Sugar Mill owners for the sugar cane purchased from them.
The farmers are also agitating in protest against the alleged comments by Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy at Belagavi when they were agitating near Suvarna Soudha yesterday.
However, Deputy Chief Minister Dr G Parameshwara clarified saying that the Chief Minister's statement twisted and misinterpreted and he did not mean any wrong thing.
Mr Kumaraswamy had allegedly stated that "why suddenly they (Farmers) took the decision all of a sudden to protest against the Congress-JDS coalition government. What they were doing since last four years when the dues were not paid.
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