UDUPI: Former MLA U.R. Sabhapathi said here on Wednesday that the next phase of the protest against the shifting of the garbage-dumping yard from Udupi to Alevoor village would be launched after consulting the members of the Gram Panchayat, Taluk Panchayat and Zilla Panchayat.

Mr. Sabhapathi told presspersons that the president of the Alevoor Gram Panchayat Harish Sherigar, who belongs to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), had earlier opposed the shifting of the dumping yard. But then, he and some people from Alevoor had been taken on a day's visit to Bangalore to show them the working of the garbage disposal plant there.

After this visit, Mr. Sherigar had changed his stand at a meeting of the Gram Panchayat on November 12.

But when the people continued to oppose the shifting, Mr. Sherigar had said that the meeting was an "informal" one and had walked out of it. Mr. Sabhapathi said it was time Mr. Sherigar and the BJP stopped adopting "double standards" on the issue. Mr. Sherigar would be asked to make his stand clear on November 20, the former MLA said.

He said the district administration was forcing the yard on the people of Alevoor.

Both the administration and the State Government had no respect for the Panchayat Raj Act, he alleged. The work on the shifting of the yard had already begun under police protection and the police were making life difficult for the people of Alevoor, he said.

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