Mysore/Mysuru: Vehicular movement on the ever-busy Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway was disrupted for a few minutes this morning as farmers under the banner of Raitha-Dalita-Karmika Aikya Horata Samiti and a host of other farmer, labour and social organisations blocked the highway by forming a human chain at Columbia Asia Hospital junction as part of their ‘State and National Highways’ blockade stir. The stir was called today in protest against the recent amendments to Land Reforms, APMC and Labour Acts.
As part of the stir, more than 100 farmers carrying drums, a percussion instrument, converged at Colombia Asia Hospital junction and attempted to block the highway junction where four important roads (Ring Road towards Hunsur, Ring road towards Bannur, Mysuru road and Bengaluru road) intersect. But as the farmers did not have the necessary Police permission, the Police tried to stop them from carrying out road blockade, which led to a tense situation, with the protesting farmers entering into a verbal duel with the Police.
