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Anti-cattle slaughter Bill will hit farmers: KRRS leader

Udupi: Kodihalli Chandrashekhar, president of the State unit of the Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha (KRRS), said on Friday that his organisation was against the anti-cattle slaughter Bill introduced by the State Government.

Mr. Chandrashekhar told presspersons that the Bill, if approved by President Pratibha Patil, would only create more problems for agriculture and farmers. Farmers would be forced to send their old cattle to goshalas and pay Rs. 25 a day for every cow sent for maintenance till its death. “When farmers do not have money to buy poison to end their lives, how will they pay Rs. 25 daily,” he asked.

The KRRS would oppose the Bill even if it got the President's assent. “People speaking of protecting cows and eulogising the Bill have never reared cows in their life. Let those consuming beef continue to do so as they have been consuming it for centuries. If the Government pays Rs. 28 a litre of milk to farmers, it will automatically increase the number of cattle,” he said.

The Government should ban palmolein in the State. This would automatically increase the demand for other oils, including coconut, groundnut and sunflower. The Government should also increase the support price for coconut and maize, he said.

The KRRS would launch a dharna in front of all taluk offices across the State on October 4 against the move to amend land acquisition and loan recovery laws. Discrimination in providing electricity between urban and rural areas should be removed and a national policy on mining announced, he said.

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