The state-wide bandh call given by pro-Kannada organisations in protest against the formation of Maratha Development Corporation received a tepid response in Davangere on Saturday. Normal life in the city was not affected in any manner.
Activists of Karnataka Rakshana Vedike staged a protest at Jayadeva circle and they also burnt an effigy of the Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa. They also performed Urulu Seve on the road to express their ire against the government. They formed a human chain at the circle and staged rasta roko for a while.
Business establishments functioned as usual while the movement of buses and autorickshaws was normal in the city.
(Published 05 December 2020, 10:38 IST)
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