Seeking the withdrawal of the recent APMC Amendment Act and fulfilment of other demands, scores of headload workers (Hamalis) of the Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee stopped work and launched a two-day protest on Wednesday.
Taking out a protest march in the APMC yard, the workers staged a sit-in in front of the administrative office of APMC at Amargol here.
General Secretary of the State APMC Hamali Federation Mahesh Pattar, linguist and activist G.N. Devy, the former MLA N.H. Konaraddi, convenor of Samvidhan Suraksha Samiti Ashraf Ali, president of the Merchants Association Basvaraj Yaklaspur, Congress leader Rajat Ullagaddimath, Gurusiddappa Ambiger of Hamali Federation and others, including office-bearers of the associations of advocates, insurance employees and other organisations, expressed solidarity with them. They all addressed the workers.
The speakers said that the…