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The crash in prices of tobac­co  over  the  last  few  weekshas not only  led  to  farmersprotesting against the Tobac­co Board’s failure to come totheir  rescue,  but  it  nowthreatens  to  cast  a  shadowon  the  Assembly  bypolls  inHunsur, a key tobacco­cultiv­ating region.

The  annual  auction  sea­son for tobacco in Karnatakabegan in the second week ofSeptember this year with theproduce commanding a rea­sonably average price acrossbright,  medium,  and  low­grade  varieties  of  the  pro­duce. But, fi��ve to six weeksinto the auction season, thedemand  for  tobacco  plum­meted with no takers, partic­ularly  for  the  low­grade  to­bacco,  sparking  protestsacross diff��erent auction plat­forms in Mysuru district.

According  to  Mr.  JavareGowda, president of VirginiaFlue  Cured  (VFC)  TobaccoGrowers’ Federation of Kar­nataka,  the  price  of  low­grade  tobacco,  which  wasbeing purchased for an aver­age of ₹��120 a kg, had comedown by ₹��20 to ₹��30 a kg. 

Angry  farmers  even  heldup  auctions  in  Periyapatnalast  week,  accusing  the  go­vernment  and  the  board  ofbeing  soft  on  traders  com­prising  the  cigarette  manu­

facturing  companies  thatwere  responsible  for  theirplight.

Karnataka  Rajya  RaithaSangha  (KRRS)  and  HasiruSene, which has taken up thecudgels on behalf of tobaccofarmers, said the ire of farm­ers over the collapse in pric­es will have a bearing on theDecember  5  bypolls  toHunsur.

Of the 48,000 licensed to­bacco  growers  in  the  State,as many as 22,000 are fromHunsur, according to seniorTobacco  Board  offi��cials.Each licence is linked to a fa­mily  of  three  to  fi��ve  adults,besides  the  labourers  en­gaged  to  work  on  theirfarms. 

In  addition,  there  areabout  5,000  to  6,000  un­authorised growers of tobac­

co  in  Hunsur,  said  Mr.Gowda.

More than 2.2 lakh peopleare eligible to cast their votesin  Hunsur  Assembly  seg­ment in the coming bypolls,which  is  expected  to  be  anacid test for former MinisterA.H. Vishwanath, who, afterresigning as JD(S) MLA in Ju­ly, is now entering the fray asthe BJP candidate. He will bechallenged by Congress’ H.P.Manjunath, a two­time MLA,and  JD(S)  candidateSomashekar.

KRRS leader Badagalapu­ra Nagendra said farmers’ is­sues invariably have a bear­ing  on  elections  and  theplight  of  tobacco  farmerswill  be  no  exception.  Thefarmers  will  show  their  an­ger at the polling booth, hewarned. The Tobacco Board

offi��cials  suspect  that  theprotests by tobacco farmerswere “politically motivated”and stoked by leaders of theOpposition parties to capital­ise  on  the  mood  of  thefarmers.

However,  board  offi��cialsadmitted  that  the  price  oflow­grade  tobacco  haddipped  and  the  reason  wasattributed  to an  increase  inits output due to heavy rainsand  the  high  yield  in  areasalong  the  banks  of  Laksh­manthirtha and other tribu­taries of  the Cauvery  in theregion.  With  auctions  alsocommencing  in  Guntur  inneighbouring  Andhra  Pra­desh,  the  traders had morethan one option for purchas­ing  tobacco.  Board  offi��cialssaid  the  prices  of  tobaccohad begun stabilising in thethird week of November andhoped  that  the  farmerswould get better prices soon.

Crash in tobacco prices couldimpact bypolls in Hunsur There are around 22,000 growers in Hunsur who are upset over drop in demand

Laiqh A. Khan

MYSURU

Demand for tobacco has plummeted, particularly for thelow­grade variety.  * M.A. SRIRAM

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Former Minister A.H. Vish­wanath on Friday said thathe agreed to join the BJP be­cause of V. Srinivas Prasad,veteran  Dalit  leader  andChamarajanagar MP.

On his fi��rst visit to the BJPoffi��ce in Mysuru on Friday,Mr.  Vishwanath  disclosedthe behind­the­scenes deve­lopments  prior  to  the  en­masse resignations by coali­tion  MLAs  in  July.  He  saidMr.  Prasad,  with  whom  heenjoyed a close rapport, hadinvited him to his residenceand  asked  him  to  take  thelead in establishing a BJP go­vernment in the State, withB.S.  Yediyurappa  at  thehelm. “He told me to quit asJD(S)  State  unit  presidentand take the lead in bringingthe  BJP  to  power.  I  imme­diately agreed,” Mr. Vishwa­nath  said,  before  addingthat  the  two  spoke  to  Mr.Yeddiyurappa  immediatelythereafter.

Mr. Vishwanath said thathe  was  told  that  the  BJP’sobjective would be achievedif a leader like him came for­ward and took a fi��rm deci­sion. He gave Mr. Prasad theentire credit for installation

of  the  BJP  government  inthe State.

Mr.  Vishwanath,  whojoined  the  BJP  formally  inBengaluru on Thursday, vi­sited  ChamundeshwariTemple  atop  ChamundiHills  in  Mysuru  on  Fridaybefore visiting the party of­fi��ce in Mysuru to participatein  the  Kanaka  Jayanticelebrations.

Mr.  Prasad,  however,downplayed his role in esta­blishing the BJP governmentin the State by claiming thatthe Congress­JD(S) coalitioncollapsed on account of the“mistrust  and  misunder­standing” between the lead­ers of the two parties.

Acknowledging  hisfriendship with Mr. Vishwa­nath,  Mr.  Prasad  said  theformer had resigned as MLArepresenting  Hunsur  asformer Chief Minister Sidda­ramaiah  had  been  “humi­liating” him. 

No reactionMeanwhile,  Mr.  Siddara­maiah, who was also in My­suru  on  Friday  to  partici­pate  in  the  Kanaka  Jayantiprocession, refused to reactto  statements  made  by  Mr.Vishwanath.

Reveals that he was asked to take lead in establishing BJP govt. in State

Special Correspondent

MYSURU

Former Minister A.H. Vishwanath with Pratap Simha, BJPMP, and C.H. Vijayshankar, former MP, at the party offi��ce inMysuru on Friday. * M.A. SRIRAM

Vishwanath: I joined BJPat Srinivas Prasad’s behest

The Hampi World HeritageArea Management Authori­ty has decided to procure 10more battery­operated bug­gies for tourists visiting thefamed  Vittala  temple  com­plex in Hampi. It also plansto  introduce  minibuses  toferry  visitors  to  diff��erentmonuments in Hampi.

At  present,  six  buggiesferry visitors for about onekilometre from Gajjala Man­tap to Vijaya Vittala temple.Of the 25 buggies procuredover the last 10 years, onlysix are operational, which iswoefully  inadequate  giventhe tourist fl��ow. 

P.N.  Lokesh,  Commis­sioner of the authority, said,“The new buggies will be inplace  before  Hampi  Utsavscheduled in January 2020.”As  many  as  13  women  em­ployed by the authority op­erate  the  buggies  in  twoshifts.  Each  woman  oper­ates  20  rounds  a  day  bet­

ween 7 a.m. and 6 p.m.Speaking of the minibus­

es, he said, “We want to in­troduce a system of a dailypass  for  travel  in  Hampithroughout  the  day.  Threevehicles  will  be  doing  therounds  on  a  specifi��c  routecovering  a  few  monu­ments.” 

The local people also feelthe need for more measuresto facilitate tourists. “Hampiis  a  vast  area,  with  around1,600 monuments. It wouldbe diffi��cult to cover the en­tire  area  without  propertransportation,”  said  Basa­va,  a  resident  of  Hampi,who  works  as  a  guide  forvisitors.

The authority has also de­cided to study the feasibilityof aqua sports at tanks locat­ed  in  Kamalapura,  on  theHampi  University  campusand Sanapura. The commis­sioner said there was a pro­posal to introduce trekking,rock­climbing,  mountain­biking, and heritage walks. 

Hampi to get morebuggies, minibuses Facilities are inadequate at present

Sathish G.T.

Hampi

Tourists being ferried in a buggy to the Vijaya Vittala templein Hampi.  * SATHISH G.T.

Soon, diagnosis of KyasanurForest Disease  (KFD), com­monly  known  as  ‘monkeyfever’, could be done quick­ly and easily at the primaryhealth  centre  (PHC)  level.The National Institute of Vi­rology (NIV), Pune, has de­veloped  a  point­of­care  ra­pid  test  kit,  which  is  nowawaiting the Drug ControllerGeneral  of  India’s  (DCGI)approval.

The test kit, developed bythe  Biosafety  Laboratory(BSL)­Level  4  team  of  NIV,will allow PHCs  to  test andreport positivity within twohours.

“We  are  now  getting  thetest kits externally validatedin other laboratories follow­ing which there will be fi��eldtrials.  Simultaneously,  wehave also applied for appro­val from the DCGI. Once thatis  done,  the  kits  will  bemade available in the aff��ect­ed States,” Ashok M., offi��cerin charge of NIV’s Bengaluruunit told The Hindu.

As of now, Real­Time Re­verse Transcriptase Polyme­rase  Chain  Reaction  (RT­PCR) and serology test usingIgM capture ELISA (enzyme­linked  immunosorbent  as­say)  are  done  to  diagnose

the  disease.  This  usuallytakes one to two days for theresults. 

Moreover, the blood sam­ples from the districts haveto be transported to the Vi­ral  Diagnostic  Laboratory(VDL),  Shivamogga,  whichis  the  main  arm  of  the  De­partment of Health and Fa­mily  Welfare  tackling  thedisease.

Point-of-care“The new rapid test is a mo­lecular test for which bloodsamples will be drawn andtested at the PHC itself. Thiswill  enable  diagnosis  to  beprovided at the point of care

within  two  hours,”  said  Ki­ran  S.K.,  Deputy  Director,VDL, Shivamogga.

Principal  Secretary(Health and Family Welfare)Jawaid  Akhtar  said  the  useof these kits is one of the ma­ny recommendations madeby Karnataka to the NationalCentre for Disease Control. 

Cases reportedKFD was limited to the West­ern  Ghats  of  Karnataka  forabout  seven  decades.  Ho­wever,  in  the  last  sevenyears, cases have also beenreported  from  adjacentStates  along  the  WesternGhats  (Kerala,  Goa,  Maha­rashtra,  and  Tamil  Nadu).The  rapid  test  will  be  ofgreat  help  in  Karnataka,which is one of the worst af­fected States. 

“We are entering into thisyear’s (2019­20) KFD seasonand are hoping the numberswill be less. We have carriedout  an  aggressive  vaccina­tion drive and over two lakhpeople have been vaccinat­ed from August 2018. In thenext  one  month,  over  1.5lakh  more  people  will  bevaccinated.  The  eff��ective­ness of the vaccine is up to85%  among  those  who  re­ceive  three  doses,”  addedDr. Kiran.

Test kits at PHCs for rapiddiagnosis of monkey fever With new equipment, test results will be ready in two hours

Afshan Yasmeen

Bengaluru

The  State  go­vernment con­ferred  the  Ka­naka  Shri

award  onB.N.  Murthy

in Bengaluru on Friday. He isthe brother of the late B.N. Vi­jay Kumar, former BJP MLA.Mr.  Murthy  was  involved  inpopularising  the  preachingsof Kanakadasa. 

B.N. Murthyconfered KanakaShri award

Special Correspondent

Bengaluru

B.N. Murthy

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