ANI | | Posted by Yamini C S
Aam Aadmi Occasion (AAP) activists on Monday staged an enormous protest at Freedom Park in Bengaluru towards the dying of two youths due to potholes in Attur Structure and Rajanukunte.
The AAP employees, planning to start out the procession from there and lock the BBMP workplace, have been stopped and arrested by the police halfway.
“Folks dying resulting from potholes in Bengaluru aren’t simply victims. It’s a state-sponsored bloodbath. The shameless authorities, which isn’t able to closing the potholes, is committing crimes by killing harmless lives on this method,” AAP’s Bengaluru president Mohan Dasari stated.
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He stated that the federal government has determined to cheat the voters by closing potholes with shoddy work solely when it is a couple of days earlier than the mannequin code of conduct comes into drive for the BBMP elections.
“Accidents resulting from potholes have turn out to be frequent in Bengaluru. There are 3-4 deaths each month due to this. The chief minister who roams in zero site visitors corridors and the ministers and MLAs who’re at all times within the automobile don’t perceive the difficulties of the bikers,” he stated.
Dasari additional added that the federal government delays the discharge of funds for the highway works if the contractors don’t comply with pay the required fee. The state has by no means seen such a money-hungry authorities earlier than.
Hitting out at Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai he stated, “CM Basavaraj Bommai thinks that individuals will vote for BJP even when the potholes are closed on the polling day. However the folks ought to get up and educate a lesson to the corrupt BJP within the coming elections. Each accident prompted resulting from potholes ought to encourage folks to vote towards the BJP,” including, “Folks ought to at all times do not forget that individuals who pay numerous sorts of taxes have full proper to get an excellent highway and query the federal government for decreasing the dignity of Bengaluru for making unhealthy roads.
AAP leaders Suresh Rathod, Jagadish V Sadam, Suhasini, Usha Mohan, Anjana Gowda, Bhanuprakash, Vishwanath, Mahesh Babu and others participated within the protest.