Dozen protests bring Bengaluru to standstill

Bengaluru | Thursday | 11th July, 2019

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Ashwini M Sripad ByExpress News ServiceBENGALURU: It isn’t just the political parties that are in protest mode in the city, the state capital saw more than a dozen protests on Wednesday. Shiv Sena members also staged a dharna of their own at Mysore Bank Circle against resort politics. The Save Sharavathi River Association had called for a bundh in Shivamogga against the proposal of drawing water from Sharavathi to Bengaluru. Few government school students, along with Kannada activists, held a march near Mysore Bank against introduction of English-medium schools. ASHA workers protested at Freedom Park for better wages too..