Synopsis: Farmers from 26 villages near Bidadi town in Ramanagara taluk have been protesting for over 200 days against the Karnataka government’s 9,000-acre Greater Bengaluru Integrated Township project, citing forced acquisition of fertile farmland and alleged violations of the Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act. The project, first proposed in 2006 and rebranded as India’s first AI-powered “work-live-play” city, aims to decongest Bengaluru and develop over 2,000 acres for AI-based industries, but farmers argue it threatens livelihoods, dairy farming, and sericulture in the region.

Months after a 1,198-day agitation by farmers in Karnataka’s Devanhalli in Bengaluru Rural district forced the Congress-led state government to drop a plan to acquire 1,777 acres of fert

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