KSRTC bus damaged in Mysore

After a series of day-long protest marches and a total bundh yesterday, Mysore saw only a few demonstrations on Sunday.

An incident of damaging a Krishnarajasagar-bound KSRTC bus was reported this morning. When police tried to disperse a demonstrating crowd near KRS, some miscreants pelted stones at the KSRTC bus attached to the Mysore City Transport. Following the incident, bus services were suspended on this route.

Pro-Kannada activists set up road blocks and burnt tyres on the road, hindering vehicular movement to KRS resulting in police intervention and the stone throwing incident. Similar incidents of burning tyres were also reported on the outskirts of Mysore on the highway to Bangalore. Hundreds of women of self-help groups of the co-operative societies took out a rally to the Deputy Commissioner’s office.

 

Members of these groups went in procession carrying empty plastic pots on their heads to mark their protest against release of Cauvery waters. They went raising slogans from the Northern Gate of the Palace to the DC’s office.

Led by Karnataka Housing Board Chairman G T Deve Gowda, they handed over a memorandum at the DC’s office demanding stoppage of water flow from the KRS reservoir to Tamil Nadu.

Besides Vishwakarma community members, members of a women organisation held a protest demonstration opposite the court buildings.

The day-time movement of vehicles between Mysore-Bangalore continued to be affected for the eighth day on Sunday on account of protests and road blocks at Mandya and other surrounding towns.