Bantwal: Dalit Seva Samiti stages hunger protest against revenue dept
Bellevision Media Network
Bantwal, 10 Feb 2015: DK district Dalit Seva Samiti®, led daylong hunger strike in front of the office of Tahsildar, B C Road, here on Monday February 9, against revenue department for not clearing the lands that the latter had included in land availability list of 2012 – 13.
The protesters alleged the revenue department has caused injustice to economically-weaker and ex-servicemen.
The ex-serviceman Uday Kumar offered motion for the hunger strike, while ex-servicemen Harish Shetty Alike and Annu Naika Netrakere also joined in the hunger protest.
DK district Dalit Seva Samiti president Sesappa Bedrakadu, DK district Ambedkar Forum for Social Justice president Banuchandra Krishnapura, CPI (M) leader Ramanna Vittal, Kannada Sene district president Chandrashekar A, secretary Umesh, taluk president Dinesh Punacha, taluk Nalike Sangh president Ramanna Vittal, Nalike Yuva Vedike district president Keshav Kabaka and others addressed the protesters.