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.
Let the Truth be known. If you read VB and like VB, please be a VB Supporter and Help us deliver the Truth to one and all.
Dance choreographer Jani Master held in sexual assault case
Hyderabad (PTI): Well-known dance choreographer Jani Master, who has been accused of sexual assault by a woman who worked with him, was arrested, police said on Thursday.
Jani Master, whose real name is Shaik Jani, was arrested in Goa by the Cyberabad police where he will be produced before a local court, a senior police official told PTI.
He will be brought to Hyderabad after obtaining a transit warrant from the court
