Guv recommendation: BJP, Cong stage protests across K'taka

Bangalore, May 17 (PTI) South Indian state of Karnataka
on Tuesday witnessed protests and rallies statewide with the
ruling BJP demanding immediate recall of Governor H R Bhardwaj
and Opposition Congress seeking dismissal of B S
Yeddyurappa-led government.
BJP activists burnt effigies of Bhardwaj, decrying his
recommendation to the Centre for bringing the state under
President's rule and calling for the Governor's immediate
recall, in all the districts as part of the party's call.
The ruling party workers set up road blockades at several
places disrupting the traffic, reports reaching here said.
Reports of BJP activists staging 'rasta roko' has come in
from Mysore, Bijapur, Belgaum, Raichur and other places.
In Bangalore, the saffron party members protested near
Townhall.
The Congress also resorted to traffic blockade and
protests at several places in the state, particularly on
National Highways connecting Bangalore.
Addressing the party activists at Goraguntepalya, KPCC
President G Parameshwara demanded that the "corrupt" BJP
government be dismissed and the Centre accept the Governor's
report in this regard.
"We will continue to agitate till this corrupt government
is dismissed", Parameshwara declared.
The city witnessed traffic snarls at several places in
the wake of protests by Congress and BJP members.
Yeddyurappa is camping in Delhi along with MLAs whom he
would parade before the President Pratibha Patil this evening
at Rastrapathi Bhavan to demonstrate his strength.