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The undesirable” consequences on 7,000 per acre. shooting on Sunday came amid the country. Sirisena on Friday The cost of stubble pro- a constitutional crisis triggered night sacked Wickremesinghe cessing includes rent of by President Maithripala and appointed former strong- machinery, diesel charge, Sirisena’s sacking of the Prime man Rajapaksa as the new labourer charge. “The rental Minister and his Cabinet. Prime Minister. Next day, cost of combine harvester is Ruwan Gunasekara, a Sirisena suspended Parliament 2,500 to 3,000 per acre which police spokesperson, told till November 16 after includes transportation charge. Haryana. per cent was burnt on farms. Of reporters that a bodyguard for Wickremesinghe, who had The cost of diesel is also borne However, the farmers con- this, 60 per cent was paddy Arjuna Ranatunga, termed his sacking as illegal by the farmer. Four to five litre tend that access to straw man- straw, while wheat accounted Wickremesinghe’s Petroleum and unconstitutional, sought an 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 emergency session to prove of labour, crushing of straw cost higher cost than environmen- estimates, Punjab alone pro- crowd of people loyal to his majority. and other costs included, it will tal compensation. Straw man- duces 19-20 million tonnes of Sirisena when they attempted The President also with- come around 6,000 to 7000 agement equipment is beyond paddy straw and about 20 mil- to prevent the dismissed drew Wickremesinghe’s per- per acre in Punjab and the means of a small and mar- lion tonnes of wheat straw. Minister from entering his sonal security and vehicles in Haryana,” said Binod Pandey, ginal farmer. Between September 27 and office at the state-run Ceylon order to accord them to his 72- of All India Kisan Mahasangh Moreover, the cost does not October 14, the Punjab Petroleum Corporation. killed in the incident, accord- majority in Parliament. request,” the parliament speak- year-old successor, who staged 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. a dramatic political comeback. 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 In his first address to the 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 nation after sacking Officials of Agriculture tional money on diesel and compensation cess” as it is developments in Colombo. way, the police said. up support for Rajapaksa’s National Party (UNP), also Wickremesinghe, Sirisena said Ministry also admit that stub- labour. Hundreds of thousands officially called — on farmers “India is closely following The shooting was the first appointment. urged Sirisena to reconsider his his former ally’s political con- 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- duct since the victory in 2015 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 elections was unbecoming. 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- “He appeared to treat Sri 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. Lanka’s future as a joy ride for 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 a coterie of people around him “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, who had no sense of the com- 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 mon man’s thinking,” he said. 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 “He completely destroyed the value and no nutritional value by the Indian Agricultural November. A few years ago, the assistance to the friendly peo- his sacking was unconstitu- could prove a majority in par- House, while Sirisena’s UPFA concept of good governance to be used as the fodder. So Research Institute (IARI), in farmers’ were used to manage ple of Sri Lanka,” said MEA tional and has called for an liament. has 95. In a letter to Sirisena, while corruption and waste many farmers prefer to pay the 2008-09 the country generated straw problem at sources with Raveesh Kumar. emergency parliament sitting to “I consider the said request Speaker Karu Jayasuriya became rampant. environment compensation or 620 million tonnes of crop the help of labourers. A 34-year-old man was prove he still commanded a to be a democratic and fair backed the ousted Prime Continued on Page 4 fine,” said a farmer from residue, of which close to 16 Continued on Page 4 P ! R R Q R % ishing his course in the year 1999, he # worked at the CBK Info-tech company in t is the tale of brewing beers by two Bangalore as a programmer for a year. All 08!"7:.:;!8987* Ichildhood friends from Ranchi who are this while, his friend Sikki was by his side creating ripples in Bangalore! whether it came to working together at the ! O ormer Union Minister We dream of making life as large as it info-tech company, or running a computer !" 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