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The recently formed Brahmarakootlu Tollgate Teravu Horata Samithi connected Thursday, decided to clasp a wide dharna connected March 3 astatine Brahmarakootlu demanding scrapping of the tollgate connected Mangaluru-Bengaluru National Highway 75.
Like-minded organisations, activists, representatives of governmental parties and others gathered astatine B. C. Road to sermon the ways and means to get the ‘illegal’ tollgate betwixt B. C. Road and Mangaluru connected NH-75 removed. Former curate B. Ramanath Rai presided the meeting.
In his introductory address, Surathkal Tollgate Virodhi Horata Samithi convener Muneer Katipalla, explained the measures to beryllium taken for the struggle. He besides explained the long-struggle undertaken by the Surathkal Samithi to get the NITK-Surathkal tollgate connected NH-66 removed. Both, Brahmarakootlu arsenic good arsenic Surathkal tollgates, are portion of the New Mangalore Port Road project, helium noted.
At the extremity of the meeting, the participants decided to signifier the Brahmarakootlu Tollgate Teravu Horata Samithi with Mr. Rai being its honorary president to instrumentality guardant the combat for scrapping the tollgate. B. Shekhar and Mohan Shetty were chosen arsenic the conveners of the Samithi.
The dharna connected March would beryllium conducted from 9 a.m. to noon, and if the National Highways Authority of India does not scrap the tollgate, the Samithi would intensify the struggle, the gathering resolved.
