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Unmindful of the scorching son, scores of elder citizens took retired a protestation march and staged objection successful Hubballi connected Tuesday (March 24) seeking fulfilment of their long-pending demands, including azygous pension rules crossed the country, abstracted fund for elder citizens, and others.
As announced earlier, the protestors archetypal congregated astatine Nehru Stadium successful Hubballi earlier opening their protestation march successful the beingness of Sri Basavalinga Swami of Rudrakshi Mutt.
Led by B.A. Patil, State president of Karnataka State Senior Citizens and Retired Employees Welfare Association, and different bureau bearers, including fewer from their nationalist body, the protesters covered the thoroughfares of the city, including Ambedkar Circle, Siddappa Kambali Marga (Lamington Road), and Kittur Chennamma Circle, earlier reaching the Mini Vidhana Soudha, wherever they submitted a memorandum to the taluk officials.
Earlier addressing the protesting elder citizens, Mr. Patil had said that aft the dharna by the relation members during the Winter Session successful Belagavi, Minister Laxmi Hebbalkar had promised to instrumentality affirmative steps aft consulting with officials.
However, arsenic thing happened, they approached the State’s main secretary, who successful crook directed Shamla Iqbal, caput of the Department of Women and Child Development and Empowerment of Differently Abled and Senior Citizens, to look into the issue. Subsequently, the caput wrote to assorted departments astir implementing the orders that were issued regarding their demands. However, truthful far, nary steps person been taken to fulfil their demands, forcing them to instrumentality the way of agitation, the caput said, adding that their protestation was against some Union and State governments.
Association office-bearers D.T. Patil, Lingaraj Angadi, M.P. Kumbar, S.M. Kolur, Dharanendra Javali, Hemagiri Pattanashetti, women’s helping president Sunanda Bennur, and others led the protestation march.
During the protestation march, the elder citizens raised slogans stating that they would not votes for candidates who were apathetic towards their demands.
Their different demands included declaring astir 20 crore elder citizens successful the state arsenic “national assets”, mounting up a abstracted Ministry for the payment of elder citizens astatine some the Centre and State levels, a pension of ₹10,000 for each elder citizens who person Below Poverty Line cards, hold of escaped autobus work to antheral elder citizens, and resumption of railway fare subsidy.
