BANGALORE: The three day indefinite hunger strike by farmers demanding the recovery of 1,300 acres of alleged excess land given to the Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprises Limited (NICE) ended on Saturday following a positive assurance from the State Government.Minister for Housing V Somanna met the protesters on behalf of Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa and persuaded the farmers to give some time to the government.Though reluctant in the beginning, the farmers finally agreed to Somanna's request and called off their three-day-old hunger strike. Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa has convened a meeting of farmers who have lost their lands for the controversial Bangalore-Mysore Infrastructure Corridor Project on July 8."The State Government will take a suitable decision keeping the interests of farmers in mind," Somanna told the protesting farmers.Meanwhile, former prime minister H D Deve Gowda who was supposed to sit on hunger strike for a day on Saturday to express solidarity with the protesters did not do so as he had to attend the meeting of the Parliament Standing Committee on Coastal Surveillance which was in Bangalore on Saturday.However, Gowda visited the farmers and assured that he would join them on Sunday but not before warning the government not to test the "patience of the farmers."
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