Chikkamagalur: Two months after the Karnataka Assembly elections, Chikkamagalur farmers have found an innovative way of using politicians’ cardboard cut-outs that were used during campaigns. Cut-outs of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Amit Shah and other leaders that were used extensively during the election campaigns are now being used to chase away crows in Lakkavalli Hobli of the Tarikere taluk.
This year, the monsoon has brought in a generous amount of rainfall following which the farmers have completed sowing seeds. However, the President of the village T.N. Shivakiran denied any knowledge of cut-outs being used as scarecrows and said that “he has not come across any of them.”
