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Frustrated with the rising fig of potholes successful Bengaluru, a citizens’ radical successful eastbound Bengaluru performed a pooja connected Saturday (September 27, 2025), praying that the potholes bash not assertion immoderate lives. This comes arsenic the city’s civic bodies person begun filling potholes crossed Bengaluru.
While specified symbolic acts person been carried retired successful different parts of the metropolis earlier, the Bharathinagar Residents’ Forum chose to dainty a pothole arsenic a deity and offered prayers to it. Around 20–25 members gathered connected Webster Road, wherever they decorated the pothole with chrysanthemums and roseate petals. Interestingly, the radical adjacent hired a clergyman to behaviour the ritual with afloat spiritual chants.
Surendra Ravi, president of the residents’ forum, said “there are astir 100 potholes successful Cox Town alone, and the repairs carried retired truthful acold person been substandard.”
“The potholes reappear wrong conscionable days of filling, highlighting the mediocre prime of the civic body’s work. This patchwork attack intelligibly isn’t working,” helium said.
He further added that the civic assemblage was compelled to instrumentality up repairs lone due to the fact that of media attraction and nationalist criticism. “It is unfortunate that the medication acts lone erstwhile determination is an outcry and not connected its ain initiative,” helium said.
Mr. Ravi besides pointed retired that respective radical successful the country person been injured owed to potholes. In response, the residents themselves person started a pothole-filling drive, which they program to proceed if civic authorities neglect to act.
“We performed a ‘Homa Pooja’ to the ‘Pothole Gods’ successful desperation, believing it mightiness support america from wounded oregon death. Beyond that, we volition proceed to capable potholes ourselves arsenic overmuch arsenic we can,” helium added.
