More organisations join Cauvery stir

Mysore, Mar 6 (UNI) The month-long agitation against the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal final award in the basin districts of Mandya, Mysore and Chamarajanagar in Karnataka continued unabated, with more organisations jumping into the bandwagon today.

In Mandya, actor-turned-politician and Union Minister M H Ambareesh Fans Association took out a motorbike rally from Mandya to Raj Bhavan in Bangalore. Mandya district priests and Pandavapura sugar factory workers union took out a procession and participated in the relay hunger strike of Cauvery Hitarakshana Samithi members at Silver Jubilee park. Dharnas were staged at K R Pet, Maddur, Pandavapura and Srirangapatna.

In Mysore, Congress workers took out a colourful procession to the Deputy Commissioner's office, accompanied by folk artistes and a girl dressed as Goddess Cauvery, and submitted a memorandum.

Fertiliser Merchants Association and Electric Contractors Association staged a protest in Chamarajanagar.

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