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Bengaluru, Dec 1 (PTI): President of Karnataka Congress D K Shivakumar, along with the party affiliated National Students" Union of India (NSUI), staged what the party called a symbolic protest in front of the ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) office here on Wednesday.
The protest, the Congress said, was against any move to shift the Indian Human Space Flight programme of the space agency from Bengaluru to Gujarat and called it a matter of State"s pride.
Shivakumar recently shot off letters to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai opposing any such move amid some reports of such a plan being under consideration of the Central government.
NSUI members shouted slogans, held placards and posters which read "Stop Shifting ISRO to Gujarat "", "Stop Privatisation "".
Speaking to reporters, Shivakumar said human space flight programme should not be shifted out of the State for any reason.
"It is a matter of Karnataka"s pride; they (Central government) are planning to shift the Human Space Flight programme out of Bengaluru, it should not happen.