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The Shikaripur bandh, called by the Raitha Sangha and different organisations opposing the toll plaza connected the State road astatine Kutrahalli village, received a bully effect connected Thursday. The residents of Shikaripur taluk expressed their displeasure owed to the beingness of 2 toll plazas wrong 35 km of State Highway 57 — 1 astatine Kutrahalli and different Kallapura.
The Raitha Sangha and different pro-Kannada associations had appealed to the radical to enactment the bandh. B.Y. Raghavendra, BJP MP, had earlier expressed solidarity with them. Shopkeepers besides extended their enactment to the bandh by closing their shops connected the day. However, question of some nationalist transport and backstage vehicles was normal.
Convener of the committee Shivaraj Sunnada Koppa, warring for the closure of the toll plaza, said that hundreds of farmers walk done it each day, paying the fee. The toll volition enactment a fiscal load connected them, helium stated. “It is against the argumentation to person 2 plazas wrong a abbreviated distance. Even aft protesting respective times, the authorities has not considered our plea. We volition intensify our protestation successful the coming days to guarantee the toll plaza is removed,” Mr. Koppa said.
The members of the associations took retired a protestation march successful the town, with hundreds of farmers from Shikaripur and Shiralakoppa joining in.
Meanwhile, the taluk medication deployed policemen astatine the plaza to debar untoward incidents. The nationalist was besides banned from holding meetings there.
