The Karnataka government appears to be gripped by one more challenge as the 1,193-day protest by farmers of a few villages in Devanahalli taluk against land acquisition, which is said to be one of the longest farmers’ protest in Karnataka, is now set to snowball into a State-wide struggle. This came even as Large and Medium Industries Minister M.B. Patil sought to pacify them by stating that acquisition in three villages would be dropped, which the protesters rejected.
As many as 42 various organisations from the State are set to participate in the ‘Devanahalli Chalo’ protest on Wednesday, marking the launch of a broad-based and more intensified struggle against the Congress government, demanding a complete halt to the process of acquiring 1,777 acres of land by the KIADB in Channarayapatna of Devanahalli taluk for the proposed hi-tech Defence and Aerospace Park.
Since 2022
These farmers, who have been protesting under the banner ‘KIADB Land Acquisition Resistance Struggle Committee of Channarayapatna’ since April 4, 2022, on Tuesday rejected the government’s fresh proposal to exclude only 495 acres of land belonging to three villages in Channarayapatna hobli from the acquisition process.
