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The and undesirable” consequences 7,000 per acre. shooting on Sunday came amid on the country. Sirisena on The cost of stubble pro- a constitutional crisis triggered Friday night sacked cessing includes rent of by President Maithripala Wickremesinghe and appoint- machinery, diesel charge, Sirisena’s sacking of the Prime ed former strongman labourer charge. “The rental Minister and his Cabinet. Rajapaksa as the new Prime cost of combine harvester is Ruwan Gunasekara, a Minister. Next day, Sirisena 2,500 to 3,000 per acre which police spokesperson, told suspended Parliament till includes transportation charge. Haryana. per cent was burnt on farms. Of reporters that a bodyguard for November 16 after The cost of diesel is also borne However, the farmers con- this, 60 per cent was paddy Arjuna Ranatunga, Wickremesinghe, who had by the farmer. Four to five litre tend that access to straw man- straw, while wheat accounted Wickremesinghe’s Petroleum termed his sacking as illegal diesel needs per acre. If the cost agement equipment comes at a for just 22 per cent. Going by Minister, fired live rounds at a and unconstitutional, sought of labour, crushing of straw cost higher cost than environmen- estimates, Punjab alone pro- crowd of people loyal to an emergency session to prove and other costs included, it will tal compensation. Straw man- duces 19-20 million tonnes of Sirisena when they attempted his majority. come around 6,000 to 7000 agement equipment is beyond paddy straw and about 20 mil- to prevent the dismissed The President also with- per acre in Punjab and the means of a small and mar- lion tonnes of wheat straw. Minister from entering his ! drew Wickremesinghe’s per- Haryana,” said Binod Pandey, ginal farmer. Between September 27 office at the state-run Ceylon sonal security and vehicles in of All India Kisan Mahasangh Moreover, the cost does not and October 14, the Punjab Petroleum Corporation. killed in the incident, accord- majority in Parliament. request,” the parliament speak- order to accord them to his 72- adding that’s was the reason the end at acquiring equipment. Pollution Control Board Meanwhile, the Ministry of ing to the police.The guard But Sirisena has suspend- er said in a letter to Sirisena. year-old successor, who staged Government incentive failed to Running the equipment in the (PPCB) imposed 8,92,500 as External Affairs (MEA) said who opened fire was arrested ed Parliament until November Jayasuriya, a member of a dramatic political comeback. attract farmers. fields means spending addi- fines — or “environmental India is “closely following” and a probe was now under 16 in an apparent bid to shore Wickeremesinghe’s United In his first address to the Officials of Agriculture tional money on diesel and compensation cess” as it is offi- developments in Colombo. way, the police said. up support for Rajapaksa’s National Party (UNP), also nation after sacking Ministry also admit that stub- labour. Hundreds of thousands cially called — on farmers “India is closely following The shooting was the first appointment. urged Sirisena to reconsider his Wickremesinghe, Sirisena said ble burning could not be of farmers in Haryana and burning paddy stubble. Of the recent political develop- incident of serious violence Speaker Karu Jayasuriya decision to suspend parlia- his former ally’s political con- stopped as cost of stubble pro- Punjab, where much of the these, they collected only ments in Sri Lanka. As a since Sirisena’s Friday deci- recognised Wickremesinghe as ment, saying the decision has duct since the victory in 2015 cessing comes around 6,000 region’s paddy is grown, set 3,05,000 till date. democracy and a close friend- sion to replace the lawful prime minister ear- “serious and undesirable con- elections was unbecoming. per acre while the fine on their rice fields on fire to clear The another reason is that ly neighbour, we hope that Wickremesinghe with lier on Sunday, and asked the sequences” for Sri Lanka. “He appeared to treat Sri stubble burning is only 2,500. left-over loose straw after har- big farmers of Haryana and democratic values and the con- Mahinda Rajapaksa, a former president to back the sacked According to the website of Lanka’s future as a joy ride for “The stubble left on the vesting paddy to make way for Punjab resort to stubble burn- stitutional process will be president accused of human leader’s request to retain the Sri Lanka’s parliament, a coterie of people around land is of no use. Currently, for wheat. ing due to shortage of farm respected. We will continue to rights abuses and corruption. “rights and privileges” of his Wickremesinghe’s UNP has him who had no sense of the farmers, it has no economic According to a 2014 study labourers in October and extend our developmental Wickeremesinghe, 69, insists office until another candidate 106 seats in the 225-member common man’s thinking,” he value and no nutritional value by the Indian Agricultural November. A few years ago, assistance to the friendly peo- his sacking was unconstitu- could prove a majority in par- House, while Sirisena’s UPFA said. “He completely destroyed to be used as the fodder. So Research Institute (IARI), in the farmers’ were used to ple of Sri Lanka,” said MEA tional and has called for an liament. has 95. In a letter to Sirisena, the concept of good gover- many farmers prefer to pay the 2008-09 the country generated manage straw problem at Raveesh Kumar. emergency parliament sitting to “I consider the said request Speaker Karu Jayasuriya nance while corruption and environment compensation or 620 million tonnes of crop sources with the help of A 34-year-old man was prove he still commanded a to be a democratic and fair backed the ousted Prime waste became rampant. fine,” said a farmer from residue, of which close to 16 labourers. $ % R R Q R ! 08!"7=.=>!8987* ! O ormer Union Minister !" 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