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The bandh called by the Internal Reservation Joint Action Committee demanding due implementation of interior preservation for Scheduled Castes and postponement of authorities recruitment until its implementation received wide enactment successful Raichur connected Wednesday.
Shops, commercialized establishments, petrol bunks and concern centres remained closed crossed the city, portion autobus services, autorickshaws and astir backstage vehicles stayed disconnected the roads. Educational and commercialized activities were mostly affected, though the bandh remained peaceful.
The protesters demanded that the State authorities find the stock of interior preservation among Scheduled Castes earlier proceeding with recruitment to astir 56,000 authorities posts.
They said that the State authorities is delaying the implementation of interior preservation and creating unnecessary disorder connected the issue.
Members of the Madiga assemblage and assorted Dalit organisations participated successful the protest.
The demonstrators marched towards Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Circle from antithetic parts of the city, beating accepted drums and raising slogans demanding contiguous implementation of interior reservation.
During the protest, a radical of demonstrators burned an effigy of Social Welfare Minister H.C. Mahadevappa adjacent the RTO Circle. Police intervened erstwhile immoderate protesters attempted to pain an effigy of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah.
The bandh disrupted proscription services, with buses of the Kalyana Karnataka Road Transport Corporation remaining disconnected the roads and autorickshaw services besides mostly absent.
As a result, passengers arriving from neighbouring taluks and districts faced inconvenience successful reaching their destinations. However, arsenic determination were nary second-year pre-university examinations scheduled connected the day, students did not look large difficulties.
The protesters besides organised a motorcycle rally crossed the metropolis and staged demonstrations astatine large junctions, expressing choler against the State government.
They demanded that the State authorities strictly instrumentality interior preservation successful recruitment processes and guarantee justness to the Madiga community.
Leaders of the agitation submitted a memorandum to Deputy Commissioner Nitish K. astatine Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Circle.
They said that the State authorities has already secured the Governor’s assent for interior preservation instrumentality and that the High Court has lone restricted the full preservation from exceeding 50%, without imposing immoderate regularisation connected the organisation of interior reservation.
Hence, they insisted that recruitment to authorities posts should beryllium taken up lone aft fixing interior preservation based connected population.
The protesters said that contempt repeated representations, the State authorities has failed to instrumentality enactment and is proceeding with recruitment without determining interior preservation causing injustice to the community.
They besides pointed retired that the request for interior preservation is much than 3 decades aged present and accused the Congress of going backmost connected its canvass committedness to instrumentality it.
In a melodramatic improvement during the protestation astatine Ambedkar Circle, Dalit Sangharsh Samiti person Bharath Kumar attempted self-immolation by pouring petrol connected himself.
Alert protesters and constabulary unit instantly intervened, seized the petrol vessel and shifted him to a hospital.
Mr. Nitish and Superintendent of Police Arunangshu Giri visited the protestation tract and received the memorandum from the agitators.
Tight information arrangements were made crossed the metropolis to forestall immoderate untoward incidents.
Leaders M. Virupakshi, Ravindra Jaldar, Madiga Dandora Samiti State president Narasappa Dandora, Kirilingappa Kavital, Bhimanna Manchal and others participated successful the protestation on with activists of respective Dalit organisations and preservation rights groups.
