Mysuru: With just a week left for the formal inauguration of Dasara festivities, over 1,500 pourakarmikas of city, led by former Mayor Narayana, who is also the President of Karnataka State Corporation, City Municipal and Town Municipal Pourakarmikas Maha Sabha, began an indefinite strike by staging a dharna in front of Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) Office on Sayyaji Rao Road this morning.
The Pourakarmikas have refrained from cleaning the city and also collecting garbage from houses at all 65 Wards today and would continue the stir till their demands were met. They are sitting in a protest under a pandal on footpath in front of MCC, shouting slogans against the State Government, District Administration, District Minister and MCC officials for neglecting them.
