Mandya Muslims stand in for protesting farmers; ask them to take a break for festival
Mandya: Muslims in the district offered to step in for the farmers who have been protesting for 73 days, asking the farmers, “Please celebrate your festival at home.”
The farmers have been staging the protest round the clock for more than two months now, with multiple demands, including a hike in the price of milk and for the sugarcane rate to be fixed.
Raitha Sangha general secretary Madhuchandan SC, posted on his Facebook page, “Farmers in Mandya have been protesting round the clock for 72 days now, opposite the Visvesvaraya statue in Mandya city, demanding scientific rates for our produce. Our Muslim friends in Mandya joined us now, and asked the Raitha Sangha office-bearers to go home and celebrate the festival. ‘We will step in for you,’ they offered.”
The general secretary appreciated the local Muslims for their strong support for the farmers’ cause.
“I give my heartfelt gratitude to our Muslim friends who showed their immense support by participating in the farmers’ struggle and asking us to take a break for the festival,” Madhuchandan has said on his Facebook page.
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BJP has history of ‘contradictory alliances’, says BK Hariprasad
Bengaluru: Congress MLC B. K. Hariprasad has launched a sharp attack on the BJP, accusing the party of hypocrisy over its criticism of alliance politics in Tamil Nadu.
In a post on X on Friday, Hariprasad said BJP leader B. L. Santhosh criticising the Congress party’s alliance politics in Tamil Nadu was “not just laughable, but the height of political contradiction.”
He said the Congress has always joined hands with like-minded parties to protect secular and democratic values in the country.
Hariprasad questioned the BJP over several of its past and present alliances across the country. Referring to Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Tripura, Bihar and Maharashtra, he accused the BJP of sharing power with parties it had earlier criticised.
He alleged that the BJP had aligned with separatist and corruption-linked political forces in different states for political gains.
“The BJP, which speaks against alliances today, should first look at its own political history,” he said, adding that the party’s record was full of “contradictions and changing stands.”
Hariprasad also accused the BJP of using central agencies such as the Enforcement Directorate, Income Tax Department and CBI as political tools to target opposition leaders, topple governments and influence electoral mandates.
He further claimed that the people of Tamil Nadu had strongly rejected the BJP and its ideology in the recent election.
“Congress forms alliances to protect the Constitution, secularism and national unity, while the BJP enters into alliances only for power,” he said.
