Yogeshwar serves ultimatum to CM

Oct 23, 2012 |

Bengaluru

Tags:

Forests minister C.P. Yogeshwar succeeded in forcing Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar to announce a minimum support price of Rs 2,400 per ton of sugarcane here on Monday.

The support price, however, would be limited to sugarcane cultivated in areas under Pandavapura and Mandya sugar factories.

Earlier in the day, Mr Yogeshwar, who wears another hat as district in-charge minister of Mandya, set a deadline for Mr Shettar to announce a support price of Rs 2,500 for sugarcane or relieve him of the responsibility as in-charge minister of Mandya district.

“The sugarcane yield this year has reduced and the crop has failed in some places. The demand of farmers in Mandya is justified. It is embarrassing to face the people of my district without considering their demand.

So, I have asked the Chief Minister to either honour the demand or relieve me of the responsibility as Mandya in-charge minister,” said Mr Yogeshwar, who was recently mobbed by farmers during his visit to the district.

When the agitation against release of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu was called off ahead of Dasara festivities, sugarcane growers threatened to intensify protests and stall the festivities in Mysore if the government failed to yield to their demand for minimum support price of Rs 2,500 per ton of sugarcane.

They were not happy with the government’s offer of Rs 2,200 per ton and demanded a higher support price.

Post new comment

<form action="/comment/reply/197300" accept-charset="UTF-8" method="post" id="comment-form"> <div><div class="form-item" id="edit-name-wrapper"> <label for="edit-name">Your name: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <input type="text" maxlength="60" name="name" id="edit-name" size="30" value="Reader" class="form-text required" /> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-mail-wrapper"> <label for="edit-mail">E-Mail Address: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <input type="text" maxlength="64" name="mail" id="edit-mail" size="30" value="" class="form-text required" /> <div class="description">The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.</div> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-comment-wrapper"> <label for="edit-comment">Comment: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <textarea cols="60" rows="15" name="comment" id="edit-comment" class="form-textarea resizable required"></textarea> </div> <fieldset class=" collapsible collapsed"><legend>Input format</legend><div class="form-item" id="edit-format-1-wrapper"> <label class="option" for="edit-format-1"><input type="radio" id="edit-format-1" name="format" value="1" class="form-radio" /> Filtered HTML</label> <div class="description"><ul class="tips"><li>Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.</li><li>Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd></li><li>Lines and paragraphs break automatically.</li></ul></div> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-format-2-wrapper"> <label class="option" for="edit-format-2"><input type="radio" id="edit-format-2" name="format" value="2" checked="checked" class="form-radio" /> Full HTML</label> <div class="description"><ul class="tips"><li>Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.</li><li>Lines and paragraphs break automatically.</li></ul></div> </div> </fieldset> <input type="hidden" name="form_build_id" id="form-23115e40d22b6f5bf219155e1aa93aba" value="form-23115e40d22b6f5bf219155e1aa93aba" /> <input type="hidden" name="form_id" id="edit-comment-form" value="comment_form" /> <fieldset class="captcha"><legend>CAPTCHA</legend><div class="description">This question is for testing whether you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.</div><input type="hidden" name="captcha_sid" id="edit-captcha-sid" value="88304887" /> <input type="hidden" name="captcha_response" id="edit-captcha-response" value="NLPCaptcha" /> <div class="form-item"> <div id="nlpcaptcha_ajax_api_container"><script type="text/javascript"> var NLPOptions = {key:'c4823cf77a2526b0fba265e2af75c1b5'};</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://call.nlpcaptcha.in/js/captcha.js" ></script></div> </div> </fieldset> <span class="btn-left"><span class="btn-right"><input type="submit" name="op" id="edit-submit" value="Save" class="form-submit" /></span></span> </div></form>