Sugarcane farmers to boycott polls if Sanjivani doesn’t start by Nov

ugarcane farmers are upset that Sanjivani sugar factory won't start this year. They have now threatened to boycott the forthcoming elections of panchayat to Zilla Panchayat as well as Assembly if government does not start the sugar factory by November. They also threatened to hit the streets in protest.

After varied statements on the issue, Cooperation Minister Govind Gaude had said that he would prefer building a new factory rather than replacing some old machinery in the present factory.

However, till then, he had promised the farmers that government would buy their sugarcane at a good price. So that the farmers don’t suffer.

But farmers ask why government can’t spend 6 crore rupees for maintenance when it spends crores of rupees for IFFI.