Watch out for another day of jams

Watch out for another day of jams
DH News Service, Bangalore:
About 200 KSRTC buses and 100 BMTC buses have been arranged to transport students from Bangalore Urban, Bangalore Rural, Kolar, Chikballapur, Tumkur and Ramanagaram districts.

Thousands of students from six districts are expected to converge on the City on Saturday for a rally to mark the culmination of the BJP government’s controversial ‘anti-terrorism’ campaign at the Palace Grounds.

Although a high court order permits gatherings of only 25,000 people in the City, the number at the Saturday rally is likely to overshoot the 25K-mark, according to sources.

Several organisations, including the student wings of the Opposition parties, had threatened to protests the compulsory nature of the rally.

Members of the Youth Congress and the National Students Union of India were caned by the police earlier this month for attempting to disrupt a meeting of principals held in connection with the campaign.

Police commissioner Shankar Bidari said necessary precautions were being taken, including deployment of adequate police and traffic personnel, to ensure a peaceful rally.

Warning miscreants against taking the law into their hands, he said security measures were put in place to ward off potential disruption of the rally by vested interests.

About 200 KSRTC buses and 100 BMTC buses have been arranged to transport students from Bangalore Urban, Bangalore Rural, Kolar, Chikballapur, Tumkur and Ramanagaram districts.

Over a thousand law and order personnel and 500 traffic police personnel will man the gathering.

Honour for Sandeep

The family of martyred NSG commando Sandeep Unnikrishnan will be honoured at the function to be attended by Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa and senior BJP leader L K Advani.

On Tuesday, higher education minister had called a meeting of principals of all colleges affiliated to Bangalore University to insist that they encourage students to attend the function. But while the Education department denied there was any compulsion on colleges to send students, many institutions were not so sure.

For PU students, the minister himself had given a reprieve. Since they would be preparing for their examinations, they will not be asked to participate in the rally.