A 12-hour statewide Karnataka bandh known as via the pro-Kannada agencies to protest the alleged attack on a state-run bus conductor in Belagavi last month for not understanding Marathi started in Karnataka on Saturday morning amid tight protection.
In numerous components of the state, the pro-kannada agencies took to the streets staging protests and they appealed to the shopkeepers to cooperate and increase their guide for the reason. But most of the stores were open as normal. In Bengaluru, the activists collected on the Mysore Bank circle and raised slogans retaining placards.
Karnataka bandh, Protests starts
Some activists staged a demonstration on the BMTC and KSRTC bus stand at Majestic in the nation capital. The protestors appealed to the bus drivers and conductors to help the decision for Bandh. As their agitation intensified, police took them under preventive custody.
In Mysuru, a few pro-Kannada activists staged a sit down-in protest by using blocking buses at the suburban bus stand. They staged a dharna close to the go out gate to block buses heading to Bengaluru and other components of the nation.
Some members of pro-Kannada corporations were taken into preventive custody when they attempted to prevent a KSRTC bus in Mysuru. In Davangere too, the protesters took to the streets.
Restricts buses movements
Sources in Belagavi said the KSRTC buses had been plying as normal but there has been restricted movement of buses from Maharashtra to this border city in north Karnataka, after Karnataka bandh.
Besides the attack on a bus conductor at Balekundri, Panchayat officers had been abused currently in Kinaye village in Belagavi for not speaking in Marathi. Belagavi just on the border of Maharashtra has a sizeable Marathi population in which the border row flares up once in a while.
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