Farmers in Mandya staged a black flag protest against CM DK Shivakumar over school protection and sugarcane prices. Police detained protesters as the CM visited to discuss the Mekedatu project. In an unusual protest over the Cauvery water dispute, BJP worker Shivakumar Aradhya ate mud in Karnataka's Mandya, alleging that the state government had “put soil in farmers’ mouths.” Aradhya.