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Yettinahole project: Rasta roko at Pumpwell Junction on Oct 15

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Mangaluru: With the demand of dismiss the Yettinahole Water Diversion Project, the Netravathi Nadi Samrakshana Okkoota has called for a rasta rook at Pumpwell Junction, where the National Highway 66 and National Highway 75 meet, on Thursday, October 15.
The organization believes that at least one person from every household in the city will participate in the 30-minute agitation.

Speaking to reporters here on Monday, Niranjan Rai, one of the functionaries of the Okkoota, said that people in the hinterland of the district had expressed their solidarity with the movement at Uppinangady sometime ago. Now, it is the turn of Mangalureans to express their solidarity with Netravathi by coming out for the rasta roko in large numbers, Dr. Rai said.

M.G. Hedge, another functionary, said that a small stage would be put up on Mangaluru-Bengaluru National Highway 75 at Pumpwell Circle from where leaders would address the people. Thereafter, all the four roads merging at the circle would be blocked, he said.

On being asked as to how long the rasta roko would go on for, Dinesh Holla said that the police has given permission to the organisers for 30 minutes; but it would “depend upon the people’s mood”, he said.

“Though it is a holiday for educational institutions, students in large numbers are expected to attend the protest, as they have been in the forefront of the agitation”, Holla added.

Dinakar Shetty said that more than 10,000 people had gathered at Uppinangady as against the expected 2,000-plus gathering. For the October 15 rasta roko, the Okkoota would not give out any figures or would not publicly mention the names of associations and organisations supporting the event. However, it is confident that a large number of people, cutting across party, caste and religious lines, would participate in the struggle, Shetty said.

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