“Luckily the driver handled it tactfully”.
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Maintaining that the situation is peaceful, police said stringent action would be taken against miscreants or vandals.
By dusk, dark smoke had filled the Bangalore skies.
Several buses across the city were set on fire.
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All the troubles started when the honorable Supreme Court of India modified its order on the controversial Cauvery water issue verdict.
The Cauvery originates in Karnataka and flows through Tamil Nadu before joining the Bay of Bengal. The constant appeals from Karnataka Chief Minister Mr. Siddaramaiah not to demand Cauvery waters as the current year’s monsoon has been deficient by 65 percent fell on deaf ears of the Tamil Nadu Government.
The Cauvery water sharing issue has brought in an outrage and people across Bangalore are in a state of anger and suffering. The century old disagreement has had resulted in multiple settlements in the past, but none has resolved the issue. Violence erupted in Karnataka on Monday following stray incidents of violence in Tamil Nadu in retaliation to the attack on a Tamil youth in Karnataka. Karnataka would get only 270bn. So Tamil Nadu went to the top court demanding 50,000 cubic feet of water per second. Finally, during a hearing on a petition by few farmers’ association of Tamil Nadu to the Supreme Court (SC) of India, seeking an assurance of irrigation water from the Cauvery, the Apex Court instructed the central government to establish a tribunal within 30 days.
Businesses in Bengaluru have faced four days of disruption this month because of protests about the water dispute and an unrelated trade union-organised strike on September 2.
The Cauvery water dispute has been a ground for war since decades now.
In view of the brewing tension, inter-state buses with Tamil Nadu registration suspended services to the neighbouring state. All schools, shops and businesses were closed and no public transport, including metro rail, was available to the residents.
The Fallout Dangers: The uptil now pro-Kannada organisations which operated in isolation have now regrouped and have already prepared an agenda to impose a complete ban on anything related to Tamil Nadu.
“With widespread damage to vital urban infrastructure, as well as interruptions in transport including roads, rail and air and the inability of the workforce to safely move to and from offices and factories, Karnataka, particularly Bengaluru city, is estimated to have suffered a loss of up to 3.7 billion United States dollars due to Cauvery dispute related-violence”. No new incidents have been reported, Bengaluru City Police said in a Twitter post.
One person died and two others were critically injured when police began firing at a mob who torched a police patrol jeep in west Bengaluru’s Hegganahalli area on Monday evening.
“A grave injustice is being done to us as the state is forced to release more water for growing crops in Tamil Nadu when we don’t have sufficient water for even drinking because of deficit rains”, protest organiser Pravish Shetty told local TV. It took nearly two years for the Tamil populations to return back to Bangalore after the riots where several lost their lives.
Activists of NMK held protests outside hotels owned by natives of Karnataka in different places in Chennai and around 12 people were arrested when they tried to enter the premises at Mylapore.
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“Such disputes can only be resolved through negotiations and a mutual agreement on how these waters are to be shared”.
