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It has been over 50 days since several groups in Karnataka’s Vijayapura district began a sit-in protest against the state government. A similar protest by a coalition of people’s collectives was held in Kolar, demanding a rollback of the Public Private Partnership (PPP) model proposed in the district in the 2025-26 budget.

Protests were also seen in Puttur in Dakshina Kannada district and Tumakuru. The demand is simple. The state must drop the privatisation of government hospitals, as the model is anti-people, especially the working-class majority, labourers, and underprivileged caste groups, who are already vulnerable and who will further be excluded from the healthcare system.

In 2022, the government withdrew the propos

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