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Vedike activists stall screening of Tamil films

ON THEIR TOES: The police keeping a vigil at a cinema at Seshadripuram in Bangalore on Monday.

BANGALORE: Demonstrations were held in Bangalore against the execution of the Hogenakkal water supply scheme by the Tamil Nadu Government.

Activists of Karnataka Rakshana Vedike, which is spearheading the protests, stormed cinemas screening Tamil films. They pulled down movie hoardings and banners and shouted slogans against Tamil Nadu and its Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi. The vedike activists staged demonstrations in front of Nataraj cinema in Seshadripuram, Vinayaka on Mysore Road, Lavanya in Bharathinagar and Poornima, off Lalbagh Road. Cinemas in Karnataka stopped screening Tamil films.

Additional Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Bipin Gopalakrishna denied reports that protesters smashed glass panes of Poornima cinema and brought down the nameplate of Bangalore Tamil Sangam office in Ulsoor.

After the vedike leaders requested the cinema owners to stop screening of Tamil films, they obliged and cancelled the shows from afternoon. Security had been heightened at vulnerable places in the city, Mr. Gopalakrishna said.

Sources in the cinema industry told The Hindu that cinemas across the State voluntarily stopped screening Tamil movies on Monday. The vedike and other Kannada groups had threatened to stop their screening and block Tamil television channels from April 9 if the issue was not sorted out by then.

Vedike activists blocked the Bangalore-Hosur Road, near Chandapur on the outskirts of the city, and brought vehicular movement to a halt for some time.

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