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Karnataka
By Our Staff Correspondent
The KSRTC bus services between Mysore and Bangalore remained suspended till afternoon as several processions were taken out in Mandya. Activists and farmers assembled on Bangalore-Mysore highway and bullock carts were lined up on either side of the road. Vehicular traffic was affected for some time. However, activists suspended the jail bharo and rail roko agitations. The KSRTC did not operate services because of the tense situation and road blockades in villages and towns on the highway. The rasta roko affected movement of vehicles through Malavalli and Bannur. A bandh was observed in Bannur. Farmers from K.M. Doddi maintained a vigil against release of water to Tamil Nadu at the Krishnaraja Sagar Reservoir. Protests were reported from Nanjangud in Mysore where students of JSS College took out a procession. The processions started in the morning and continued till late in the afternoon in Mysore. The Rajasthani Sabha took out the first procession from Ashoka Road with hundreds of its activists marching to the K.R. Circle via the Town Hall. The processions that passed through D. Devaraj Urs Road merged at the circle. The Cauvery Kriya Samithi, the Karnataka Licensed Electrical Contractors' Association, the Rajasthan Jain Samaj, the Rajasthan Vishnu Samaj, the Samyukta Karnataka Autorickshaw Drivers' and Owners' Welfare Association, and political parties were the groups that took out processions. Children from the Vishwamitra Roller Skaters' Club and the residents of Lakshkar Mohalla, led by M. Shivakumar and Sagar Kumar, councillors, joined them. In a memorandum, the electrical contractors' association said efforts should be made to find a permanent solution to the Cauvery water dispute. It sought the formulation of a national water policy and linking of the Ganga and the Cauvery to solve the century-old problem. Similar views were expressed by other organisations, all of which condemned the "high-handed approach'' of the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, J. Jayalalithaa, in dealing with the problem. Security was heightened along the procession route. A large posse of police accompanied the protestors. Vehicular traffic was halted till the processions reached the office of the Deputy Commissioner where an effigy of Ms. Jayalalithaa was burnt. Police resorted to mild caning when a small group broke away from the main procession near Santhepet and tried to close down shops. The group hurled onions kept in the shop and ran helter-skelter, creating tension in the area. Police prevented escalation of violence. The Electrical Goods Dealers' Association and the Mysore Bicycle Dealers' Association suspended business in support of the agitation. All bicycle shops remained closed today, and the members of the association took out a procession and submitted a memorandum to the Deputy Commissioner. The Grain Merchants' Association opposed the release of water to Tamil Nadu, and urged the Government to increase the compensation given to the family of Guruswamy, who committed suicide by jumping into the Kabini on Wednesday, from Rs. 1 lakh to Rs. 5 lakh. The members of the Kannada Sahitya Parishat and Kannada litterateurs here will take out a procession on Sunday in support of the agitation. De. Je Gow, H.L. Bhyrappa, G.T. Narayan Rao, and Lingadevaru Halemane, litterateurs, H.S. Krishnaswamy Iyengar, critic, and C.K.N. Raja, legal expert, are among those expected to take part in the procession commencing at 9.30 a.m. from the Palace Gate.
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