Belagavi (PTI): Karnataka Minister H K Patil on Wednesday invited representatives of sugarcane farmers, who are protesting demanding that the government fix a fair price of Rs 3,500 per tonne for their crops, for a meeting with Chief Minister Siddaramaiah in Bengaluru.

However, not willing to meet the CM in Bengaluru, farmers' representatives said that they would withdraw their protest if the state government announced a higher price by Thursday evening.

As the protest by farmers at Gurlapur Cross here entered the seventh day and spread across various parts of north Karnataka districts like Belagavi, Bagalkote, Haveri and others, the Law and Parliamentary Affairs minister met the farmers representatives on behalf of the government and tried to convince them to come for a discussion with

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