New Delhi: Protests against the verdict on Cauvery water sharing continued for the fourth day in Mandya and Mysore districts of Karnataka on Friday with hundreds of women taking to the Bangalore-Mysore highway, and blocking it off as a mark of protest.
Activists of the Karnataka Rakshna Vedike Samite also marched to the Raj Bhavan, carrying empty pots, but were apprehended and detained on the way.
The group alleges that the Cauvery Water Tribunal's verdict has been unfair to Karnataka.
People of some villages near Maddur also came out on the Bangalore-Mysore road with their cooking pans and pots and pans, cooked food had dined to register their protest.
As a result of the blockade, more than 1,000 lorries got stranded on Karnataka-bound roads for past five days. Drivers weren’t allowed to cross to the neigbouring state apprehending violence.
The trucks were carrying oerishable goods, including vegitables and fruits, worth crores of rupees, were also getting damaged in these trucks.
"The drivers and cleaners of the lorries are facing enormous hardships. Most of them have run out of money. They are not even getting food and water in the remote localities," president of Tamil Nadu Lorry Owners
Association, T Senkottayan, told PTI.
In Mandya, protesters took out a march with 28 sheep, depicting them as Members of Parliament, decrying their silence.
In Mysore, BJP Mahila Morcha wing members sent empty plastic pots by post to Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy and his Tamil Nadu counterpart M Karunanidhi as a mark of protest to express their anguish over the award.
Union Minister of State for Information Ambareesh also joined in the chorus and said the state should put pressure on the Centre not to notify the award and added that he was ready to take a delegation of MPs to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
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