Bengaluru Bandh news LIVE Updates: BMTC buses to remain operational as usual; airlines issue travel advisory
Check all LIVE Updates on Bengaluru Bandh hereAccording to BMTC, all routes of Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation will be operational as usual, news agency ANI has reportedKarnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah Monday said his government will not curtail the “Bengaluru bandh" called by some farmers' organisations on Tuesday as protests over the release of Cauvery river water to Tamil Nadu have intensified. The directive from the Cauvery Water Management Authority (CWMA) instructed Karnataka to extend the release of 5,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu for an additional 15 days.
Read more hereAnother bandh on September 29 was announced on Monday, under the banner Kannada Okkuta led by Kannada activist Vatal Nagaraj.The Tamil Nadu Cauvery Farmers' Association urged the state government to take appropriate measures through the Centre to ban Tuesday's protests in Karnataka against the release of Cauvery water to TN.The association general secretary P R Pandian, accompanied by few supporters, staged a sudden protest on Monday condemning the neighbouring state for not releasing the water. Holding the national flag, Pandian said the Karnataka government's stance and the proposed bandh tomorrow against releasing Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu, is ‘reprehensible.’Janata Dal-Secular (JDS) MP HD Deve Gowda on Monday in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi requested for a team of experts to study the water and standing crop situation in Karnataka.“I have made an appeal to the PM on the prevailing situation.
In my letter to the PM, I wrote that the Jal Shakti department should file a review petition and a committee of experts should be sent to Karnataka to study the water and standing crop situation. I requested the same to
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