Udupi: BJP conducts ‘Rasta Rokho – Jail Bharo’

By Snehalatha, Udupi
Bellevision Media Network

Udupi, 24 June 2012: Condemning the financial policies and political decisions of the central UPA government, as per the call from the state BJP, the district BJP conducted protest in front of Taluk Office by ‘Rasta Rokho and Jail Bharo’ on Friday. Leading the protest BJP district President Udayakumar Shetty spoke and said that, whenever Congress comes into power the prices of essential daily commodities of common man has gone up and when BJP comes to power it has gone down, these are the achievements of the two governments, he said.

 
The present raise in prices are caused by the wrong financial policies, wrong storage management of food and lack of political will. During 2009 the congress spent lot of money with the only intention to win the election and from this the cost has gone up and as a result the financial status of the country has become worst, he said.

 

 

In the protest Udupi MLA K. Raghupathi Bhat, Jilla Mahila Morcha President Reshma Udayakumar, Backward Community Morcha President Geethanjali Suvarna, Jilla Rural BJP President Karunakara Shetty, Jilla Yuva Morcha President Vilas Nayak, Jilla Sanghatana Secretary Vikramarjuna Hegde, Secretary Shyamala Kunder, Municipal Members Bharathi Chandrashekar, Devendra Prabhu, Naveen Bhandary, Sandhya Nayak, Geetha Shet, Shyamaprasad Kudwa, Indira Shekar, Ravi Amin, APMC President Suresh Nayak, Senior leader Somashekara Bhat, Sheela K. Shetty, Mattaru Ratnakara Hegde and others had participated.

 
As a symbolic protest the BJP Women Morcha activists prepared coffee on the middle of the road using firewood, kept the gas cylinder upside down and then distributed the coffee to those who were present. The protesters then went on a procession and when police arrived at the spot, the BJP members courted arrest.

 
Similarly the protest was conducted in Kaup, Karkala, Kundapura and Baindoor by the BJP units of those areas.