Protest News

Sand business affected strike of lorry owners to continue unabated

L.Raghunanda
Bangalore
17.11.2011

Federation of Lorry Drivers and Agents Association (FLDA) today protested in Freedom park demanding the lorry owners permit need to given back , sand quarrying so far banned need to be revived.

Some one thousand members of FLDA, many of them labourers some or the other way connected to FLDA, and quarrying who had come from all parts of Karnataka protested that CM Sadananda Gowda has to address the issue.

Which otherwise the protest will continue, where procession from Freedom park to CM residence will be taken up.

Speaking on the occasion B.V Narayanappa General Secretary of Federation of Karnataka State Lorry Owners and Agents Association said “When there is no law itself as to define what is illegal sand quarrying, quarrying itself how is this law made and why it was banned?

“ For past 20 days the lorry have remained stagnant, sand has not been arriving for building construction, in Bangalore more than 60 lorries all over the state have remained stagnant.

“And there are thousand infact lakhs people who had dependent on sand business are without work, many infact are migrating to other works and other parts of the state, district.

“Government infact should now never remain silent infact should act fast otherwise we will surround CM house and our protest will be intense, we can see so many struggling for life and with sand business connected to them.