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Protest against delay in link road project

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Commuters troubled: Members of various organisations staging a dharna demanding immediate completion of the Kuvempunagar-Ashokapuram-Vidyaranyapuram link road, in Mysore on Friday

MYSORE: Members of various organisations on Friday staged a demonstration here protesting against the delay in the completion of the Kuvempunagar-Ashokapuram-Vidyaranyapuram link road, which is causing much inconvenience to commuters.

The activists of Krishnadevaraya Kannada Sangha, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Dalit Sangha, Pourakarmikas Sangha, Nagarika Hitarakshana Horata Samiti and various progressive organisations, led by former MLA M.K. Somashekar, said the works had been “deliberately delayed” due to “political reasons”, and urged the Deputy Commissioner to issue directions to the Mysore Urban Development Authority (MUDA) which is carrying out the work, to complete the project immediately.

Though the MUDA had announced that it would complete the work by December 2007, the works are still under way and is causing inconvenience to the public, they said.

The members warned of holding an agitation in front of the MUDA office if the work was not completed in the next 15 days.

They also demanded immediate completion of Manadawadi-Nanjangud Link Road, work on which was also taken up long ago by the MUDA. “If this road was completed, the traffic congestion on Nanjangud Road up to Gun House would reduce,” they stated in a memorandum to the Deputy Commissioner.

They also demanded that the Kuvempunagar-Ashokapuram-Vidyaranyapuram Link Road should be named after NSG commando Sandeep Unnikrishnan, who died during the recent Mumbai attacks.

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