A 55 -year -old farmer, who faces the loss of three acres of land to an industrial project in Channarayapatna in Devanahalli, supposedly consumed poison in Thorsday making a protest against the acquisition of land. The farmer, identified as Venkatesh, was receiving treatment at Victoria Hospital in Bangalore.
The protest, directed by a group of farmers whose lands have been notified for the acquisition under the third phase of an industrial project by the Board of Development of Industrial Areas of Karnataka (Kiadb), has been in more than 1000 days.
The Kiadb has notified 1,777 acres for acquisition. Since the notification was issued, farmers have a bone staging an indefinite sitting, opposing the project.
Duration The last elections of the Assembly, the protesters threaten to boycott the surveys, which led the government to promise to cancel the project, but was not fulfilled.
On Thursday morning, when the farmers left the protest site with the intention of meeting with the minister in charge of the district, Kh Muniyappa, in his residence in Sanjay Nagar, the police intercepted and stopped two buses that transported more than 100 farmers.
Agricultural leader Anjaneya Reddy, speaking with The HinduHe said that when they stopped, the farmers disembarked and begged a Dharna near the police station. It was a duration of this protest that Mr. Venkatesh, a participant for a long time in agitation, supposedly consumed poison. He was urgently taken to the hospital. “Mr. Venkatesh is now out of danger, but will remain under observation for the next two days,” Reddy added.
No case has been registered in relation to the incident so far.
Published – April 11, 2025 12:16 am isth