Farmers leader censures Maha CM over his decision to impose ban on lifting of water from rivers

Kolhapur, Oct 17 (UNI) Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatana (SSS) national president and former MP, Raju Shetty, today slammed Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis for having imposed a ban on pumping of water from the rivers for sugarcane, without any regard to interests of farmers, by succumbing to pressure from the central leadership. Shetty alleged in a press release here that this decision was not in interests of farmers in the state and taken due to pressure from Prime Minister Narendra Modi and union Home & Cooperation minister Amit Shah. "Seeing that farmers are not yielding to pressure, the state government has…