Mysuru: Accusing Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy (HDK) of failing to keep his pre-election promise of farm loan waiver within 24 hours after coming to power, farmers, under the banner of KRRS (Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha), will block the National Highway at Hitnal Cross near Hospet in Ballari district on July 21.
Speaking to press persons ahead of the KRRS Mysuru divisional meeting at the Institution of Engineers-India (IEI) on JLB Road here yesterday, KRRS leader Badagalapura Nagendra said that the July 21 NH Blockade coincides with the death anniversary of martyred farmers who were killed in Police firing at Naragund in the then Dharwad district in early eighties.
