Sporadic violence as farmers stop transportation of cane
Former MP and Sanghtana founder Raju Shetti, who is on a sit-in at Jaisinghpur, has said mils would not be allowed to start operations till the demand of an additional payment of Rs 400 per tonne for sugarcane sold last season is met.
Most mills in the Kolhapur and Sangli region had not started their operations till the Oosh Parishad. Sporadic incidents of violence were reported from the sugar bowl districts of Sangli and Kolhapur as members of the Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghtana stopped the transportation of cane to mills. Former MP and Sanghtana founder Raju Shetti, who is on a sit-in at Jaisinghpur, has said mils would not be allowed to start operations till the demand of an additional payment of Rs 400 per tonne for sugarcane sold last season is met.
Members of the organisation stopped transportation of harvested cane to the Jawahar Shetkari Cooperative Sugar mill as well as the Hutatma Kisan Ahir Cooperative mill in Kolhapur and Sangli, respectively. Farmers also stopped the transportation of cane to the Rajarambapu Patil Cooperative Sugar mill in Sangli. Police and members of the farm union had heated exchanges when the later stopped cane transportation to the Jawahar Shetkari Cooperative Sugar mill. Reports of arson also came in from the border areas where tractors transporting cane were put on fire by protesters.
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