New Delhi, Nov. 18 -- Chief Minister Siddaramaiah called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi here yesterday and presented a 5-point charter of demands to him, highlighting the State's concerns over sugarcane pricing crisis and long pending irrigation project clearances.

Underlining the recent unrest among sugarcane farmers in Karnataka, Siddaramaiah conveyed the PM that the State had put in place an interim arrangement mandating an additional payment of Rs. 100 per tonne of sugarcane, with the Government itself sharing Rs. 50 of this burden. Terming the arrangement a stop-gap solution, the memorandum argued that the core issues lay with the Centre.

The CM urged the Prime Minister to revise the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for sugar - fixed a...