Bharat Bandh evokes good response in district
Agitators prepare pakoda on road and distribute them
Chikmagaluru, September 10: Bharat bandh called by the Congress and other opposition parties across the country condemning the price hike of petroleum products and essential commodities on Monday evoked good response in the district. The bandh was total and peaceful.
Shops and business establishments downed their shutters since morning. KSRTC buses were stayed off the roads. In some places, the agitators convinced the shop-keepers to close the doors of their shops. Petrol bunks and cinema theaters voluntarily supported the bandh and closed their business.
Bandh received good response even in the city. All business establishments, hotels, shops, petrol bunks were closed. Though post office and other offices were opened in the morning, they downed their shutters after the agitators sought their cooperation for the bandh and convinced them. As the deputy commissioner declared holiday for schools and colleges on Sunday, the students did not turn up towards the schools and colleges on Monday. The agitators who passed on in all roads were seen closing the shops and business establishments which were functioning in the morning.
Few autos were seen on the roads. When some lorries and maxi-cabs were seen moving on the roads, agitators appealed them stay off the roads as there is Bharat Bandh. At Hanumanthappa Circle, the agitators released the air of an auto and cab tyres and stopped them at the circle.
Prepared pakoda
In view of the Bharat Bandh, the agitators cooked pakoda at Hanumanthappa circle during bandh and protested the fuel price hike differently. The agitators prepared hearth with the help of bricks on the road, put frying pan on it and cooked pakoda and prepared tea and coffee and distributed them to the general public and police. They distributed pakoda and tea shouting as Modi pakoda and Modi tea. Former MLC A.V Gayathri Shante Gowda, CPI leader Radha Sundaresh, BSP leader K.T Radhakrishna and others prepared the pakoda and tea.
As there was no traffic movement in the roads, Kannada Rakshana Vedike and CPI workers played cricket at Hanumanthappa circle for some time. The bandh was total in Tarikere, Kaduru, Mudigere, Sringeri and Koppa taluks of the district. When the Congress workers forced the shop owners to shut the shops at Balehonnur, shop owner and the party workers engaged in verbal duals and the agitators attacked the shop owner. Apart from this untoward incident, the bandh was almost peaceful in the district.
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Patna-bound IndiGo flight makes emergency landing at Lucknow due to bad weather
Lucknow (PTI): Adverse weather forced an IndiGo Kolkata-Patna flight to make an emergency landing at Lucknow airport on Friday, airport sources said.
According to airport officials, weather conditions in Patna deteriorated suddenly on Friday afternoon, affecting flight operations.
IndiGo flight 6E 6917 from Kolkata, which was scheduled to land in Patna at 3.50 pm, could not land due to bad weather and kept circling in the air after failing to get clearance from air traffic control, they said.
The flight was later diverted to Lucknow and landed safely at the Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport at around 5.15 pm. There were 180 passengers and six crew members on board, officials said.
The aircraft was later allowed to depart for Patna after weather conditions improved.
