Click to play videoBangalore: Cows and sheep took the government by its horns on Tuesday. At the Bangalore Development Authority's head-office, just off the road to the airport and barely a kilometre from the Chief Minister's residence, farmers staged a protest along with their families and their cattle.
They want higher compensation for their land along the 63-km-long Peripheral Ring Road being built by the BDA. And while the jury is still not out on what worked in their favour - the blockade or the stench - the government acted with unusual promptness.
BDA Commissioner Bharat Lal Meena said, "Their demand is to get adequate compensation, which is true. They are parting with their land. Within the framework of law, what's best possible will be considered."
You don't have to go on a fast like Anna Hazare to get your way. These landless farmers just moved lock stock and livestock to the BDA headquarters.
The farmers have halted their protest for now but say they government must deliver on its promise by January 19.
President of Karnataka State Farmers' Association Kodihalli Chandrashekar said, "If they don't follow up, we'll hold similar protests before the Chief Minister's office and the BDA."
The offcials aren't taking the warning lightly. If this is what a handful of farmers can do, they wonder what would happen if all the 8,000-odd farmers in the belt took to protesting.
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