Several politicians and individuals, cutting across party lines, also vowed to petition the Court to scrap the system.

 A delegation of FKCCI members met the Governor on Thursday and submitted a memorandum. The FKCCI, which is also planning to file a petition in the court, will soon give a call for the bundh, one of the delegation members B K Goyal told Deccan Herald. Residents of Visveswarapurm, led by the former Mayor P R Ramesh, urged the Governor that the CVS resolution adopted by the administrator on September 28, 2007 be nullified. “I will also approach the court in this regard on Monday,” Mr Ramesh said addressing the residents at separate protest meetings organised by the residents welfare associations of V V Puram and SBM Colony.

D N Venkataramanaiah of SBM Colony Residents’ Welfare Association and Koteshwara Suryanarayana Rao, President of Basavanagudi Merchants Forum appealed to citizens to wake up and join the groups that are opposing the scheme. “Let us fight against this injustice unitedly,” Mr Suryanarayana Rao said.

The President of BJP City Unit Vijay Kumar said his party would soon organise a meeting of tax payers to oppose the scheme. “We will also launch a signature campaign and then lead a delegation to the Governor urging him to scrap the scheme,” he told presspersons on Thursday. CPI Secretary M D Harigovinda  has threatened to launch a ‘tax disobedience’ movement if the BBMP went ahead with the implementation scheme from April 1.