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But if they don’t burn Prime Minister Ranil Parliament till November 16, it then the stubble processing Wickremesinghe opened fire at saying it will have “serious and cost comes around 6,000- a crowd of protesters. The undesirable” consequences on 7,000 per acre. shooting on Sunday came amid the country. The cost of stubble pro- a constitutional crisis triggered Sirisena on Friday night cessing includes rent of by President Maithripala sacked Wickremesinghe and machinery, diesel charge, Sirisena’s sacking of the Prime appointed 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. residue, of which close to 16 reporters that a bodyguard for November 16 after The cost of diesel is also borne However, the farmers con- per cent was burnt on farms. Of Arjuna Ranatunga, Wickremesinghe, who had by the farmer. Four to five litre tend that access to straw man- this, 60 per cent was paddy Wickremesinghe’s Petroleum termed his sacking as illegal diesel needs per acre. If the cost agement equipment comes at a straw, while wheat accounted Minister, fired live rounds at a and unconstitutional, sought an of labour, crushing of straw cost higher cost than environmen- for just 22 per cent. Going by crowd of people loyal to emergency session to prove and other costs included, it will tal compensation. Straw man- estimates, Punjab alone pro- Sirisena when they attempted his majority. come around 6,000 to 7000 agement equipment is beyond duces 19-20 million tonnes of to prevent the dismissed The President also with- per acre in Punjab and the means of a small and mar- paddy straw and about 20 mil- Minister from entering his drew Wickremesinghe’s per- Haryana,” said Binod Pandey, ginal farmer. lion tonnes of wheat straw. office at the state-run Ceylon sonal security and vehicles in of All India Kisan Mahasangh Moreover, the cost does not Between September 27 and 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. October 14, the Punjab 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 Pollution Control Board 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- (PPCB) imposed 8,92,500 as 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 fines — or “environmental 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. compensation cess” as it is “India is closely following The shooting was the first appointment. urged Sirisena to reconsider his Wickremesinghe, Sirisena said ble burning could not be Hundreds of thousands of officially called — on farmers 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- farmers in Haryana and burning paddy stubble. Of 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 Punjab, where much of the these, they collected only 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 region’s paddy is grown, set 3,05,000 till date. 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. their rice fields on fire to clear The another reason is that 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 left-over loose straw after har- big farmers of Haryana and stitutional process will be president accused of human leader’s request to retain the Sri Lanka’s parliament, a coterie of people around him land is of no use. Currently, for vesting paddy to make way for Punjab resort to stubble burn- respected. We will continue to rights abuses and corruption. “rights and privileges” of his Wickremesinghe’s UNP has who had no sense of the com- farmers, it has no economic wheat. ing due to shortage of farm extend our developmental Wickeremesinghe, 69, insists office until another candidate 106 seats in the 225-member mon man’s thinking,” he said. value and no nutritional value According to a 2014 study labourers in October and assistance to the friendly peo- his sacking was unconstitu- could prove a majority in par- House, while Sirisena’s UPFA “He completely destroyed the to be used as the fodder. So by the Indian Agricultural November. A few years ago, the ple of Sri Lanka,” said MEA tional and has called for an liament. has 95. In a letter to Sirisena, concept of good governance many farmers prefer to pay the Research Institute (IARI), in farmers’ were used to manage Raveesh Kumar. emergency parliament sitting to “I consider the said request Speaker Karu Jayasuriya while corruption and waste environment compensation or 2008-09 the country generated straw problem at sources with A 34-year-old man was prove he still commanded a to be a democratic and fair backed the ousted Prime became rampant. fine,” said a farmer from 620 million tonnes of crop the help of labourers. $ % R R Q R ! 08!"7=.=>!8987* ! O ormer Union Minister !" 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