Maya casts blue spell

Maya casts blue spell
DH News Service,Bangalore:
The arrival of thousands of BSP supporters from across the State led to traffic snarls in many parts of the City, especially near the Palace Grounds.

The City resonated with “Sunday Blues” as it came under a Maya spell. Hundreds of blue flags fluttered on the roads leading to the Palace Grounds, where the UP chief minister and BSP supremo Mayawati addressed a mammoth gathering on Sunday. To make her maiden visit to Karnataka after her triumph in the UP election a memorable event, the BSP painted the City with the BSP’s blue flags, buntings, hoardings, huge cut-outs and festoons in major pockets of the City. Around 25,000 party supporters had gathered at the Palace Grounds.

The arrival of thousands of BSP supporters from across the State led to traffic snarls in many parts of the City, especially near the Palace Grounds. Hundreds of vehicles ferried in the BSP activists from distant parts of Karnataka. The inflow of hundreds of vehicles and the BSP workers roaming on the City roads led to chaotic traffic. Cops had a tough time managing the teeming crowds.

Although elaborate arrangements had been made to ensure smooth traffic flow, at the end of the function, all arrangements collapsed, when huge unmanageable crowds started emerging from the Palace Grounds in the evening. Everywhere, there were people flouting traffic norms. Mayawati used the rally to virtually launch the BSP’s election campaign in Karnataka where she hopes to do a UP.

She said the BSP would strive to replicate its successful "political chemistry" achieved in UP in other parts of the country to ensure an equal footing to all sections of society.