Solve sand problem soon: Protest staged in front of Udupi DC office
Udupi: The ‘Kattada Samagri Sagata Vahana Maalaka-Chalakara Sangha’ on Monday staged a protest in front of the DC office here urging to simplify the sand policy and immediately resolve the issue.
Addressing the protesters, Sangha leader Raghavendra Shetty said that the district administration is directly responsible for the sand problem in the district. Measures should be taken to resolve the sand issue immediately. Sand mining must be allowed at all the 170 sand dunes.
Former president of Kundapur taluk panchayat Bhaskar Billawa said the sand issue should have been addressed earlier. Now it has become a disaster and the district administration is directly responsible for this. The district administration must immediately come forward to resolve the issue, he urged.
More than a hundred lorries were parked on the national highway and staged the protest. Barricades have been installed in front of the Deputy Commissioner's office in the wake of the strike and the security has been beefed up everywhere.
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Defeated delimitation bill in Parliament to defend idea of India: Cong leader Rahul Gandhi
Chennai (PTI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said the opposition parties defeated the delimitation bill in the Parliament on Friday to defend the "idea of India."
Addressing a poll rally at Ponneri here, he said the BJP-led government at the Centre brought a new bill on April 16, and said they were trying to pass the women's bill, which he said was passed in 2023.
"In the so-called Women's Bill, delimitation was hidden. The idea was to reduce Tamil Nadu's representation in the Union of India... the delimitation move by BJP was to weaken the strength of southern states, small states, north eastern states," he alleged.
"We defeated in Parliament, a bill in which delimitation was hidden; we defeated it to defend the idea of India."
Rahul added that India that is Bharat, is a union of states, and every single state should have a voice, be free to express itself, and protect its tradition.
