Why Monsoon Session of Karnataka legislature ended 3 days in advance

After 540 days of protests against the Bidadi Township project, Karnataka Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar has finally extended an invitation to protesting farmers for talks. The farmers, who had been demonstrating at Bairamangala Circle and later at Bengaluru’s Freedom Park, are demanding that the project be dropped and that the land acquisition process be halted.

A delegation of 25 representatives from Samyukta Horata Karnataka and the Bairamangala-Kanchugaranahalli Horata Samithi will meet the Chief Minister at Vidhana Soudha, with farmers from nine villages up for acquisition set to participate. The primary demand is the cancellation of the Bidadi Township project, with the farmers also requesting representation from various fields on any survey committee if the government proceeds with a survey.

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