Belagavi, Dec. 9 -- Criticising the Bharatiya Janata Party for a protest regarding farmer issues, Karnataka Minister HK Patil on Tuesday said that the central government created the problems when they fixed the Maximum Retail Price (MRP), Fair-Remunerative Price (FRP), and sugar rate.

Speaking to reporters in Belagavi, Patil said, "Are they talking about the producers of maize, sugarcane, green gram. What problems of farmers? The problems are created by the government of India when fixing the MRP, FRP, and sugar rate. This is the bankruptcy of the intellectual capability of the BJP. Such an immoral and unreasonable protest for what?. Let them say what the state government must do. Our CM is totally with the farmers. We will fight against...