Protests choke city traffic

July 24, 2014 12:37 am | Updated 12:37 am IST - Bangalore:

BANGALORE - 23.07.2014 :  Large number of Karnataka Rajya Sarkari Kandaya Ilakha Grama Sahayaka Sangha (Karnataka State Government Revenue Department Village Assistants' Association) members staging a protest rally from City Railway station to Freedom park, demanding the government's promise to consider their demand that village assistants be treated as Group D employees, in Bangalore on July 23, 2014.  Traffic jam on Seshadri Road, due to protest rallies around the area.  Photo: K. Murali Kumar.

BANGALORE - 23.07.2014 : Large number of Karnataka Rajya Sarkari Kandaya Ilakha Grama Sahayaka Sangha (Karnataka State Government Revenue Department Village Assistants' Association) members staging a protest rally from City Railway station to Freedom park, demanding the government's promise to consider their demand that village assistants be treated as Group D employees, in Bangalore on July 23, 2014. Traffic jam on Seshadri Road, due to protest rallies around the area. Photo: K. Murali Kumar.

The central part of the city witnessed traffic snarls as multiple protests were held here on Wednesday.

There was slow moving traffic on Race Course Road and Sheshadri Road for more than two hours.

Student activists from Akhila Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad held a protest at Freedom Park, condemning the increase in crimes against women and students. They also criticised Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s response to presspersons on Tuesday, when he was questioned about the investigation into the rape case. He had shot back saying, “Is this the only news you have?”

The students marched towards the Chief Minister’s home office. The police, however, blocked their march and arrested hundreds of activists as prohibitory orders had been clamped in the light of the ongoing Assembly session. They were released later. Student activists from National Students Union of India (NSUI), attached the to Indian National Congress, also took out a protest march.

Village assistants

Meanwhile, village assistants of the Revenue Department took out a protest march, demanding that the government consider them as ‘D’ group employees. Hundreds of them were arrested while marching towards the Vidhana Soudha. They were later released.

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