Protests continue in Cauvery basin districts

Mysore, Feb 28 (UNI) Protests have become the order of the day in the Cauvery basin districts of Mandya, Mysore and Chamarajanagar in Karnataka since the Cauvery Water Distputes Tribunal pronounced its verdict on February five.

In Mandya, protests continued at Maddur, Mandya, K R Pet, Pandavapura and Srirangapatna where farmers staged ''rasta roko'' for some time and took out processions against the award. However, traffic movement on the Mysore-Bangalore highway was not affected.

The relay hunger strike at Mandya, Pandavapura, Srirangapatna and K R Pet by the Cauvery Hitarakshana Samithi continued.

In Mysore, members of the City Hoteliers Association and the owners of bakeries and sweetmeat stalls took out a procession and submitted a memorandum to the Deputy Commissioner.

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