Agitators lock municipal offices as protest for Dharwad municipal corporation enters fifth day
The protest for the bifurcation of the Hubballi-Dharwad Municipal Corporation has entered its fifth day, with demonstrators locking municipal offices in Dharwad. Led by the Dharwad Separate Corporation Protest Forum, the protesters are demanding the creation of a separate municipal corporation for Dharwad. They have intensified their agitation by raising slogans against local leaders and considering a property tax boycott until their demands are addressed.
- ▪Protesters locked several municipal offices in Dharwad as part of their ongoing agitation.
- ▪The Dharwad Separate Corporation Protest Forum is leading the protest, supported by local associations.
- ▪Demonstrators have raised slogans against local leaders, blaming them for delays in their demands.
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The indefinite agitation demanding the bifurcation of the Hubballi-Dharwad Municipal Corporation (HDMC) to create a municipal corporation for Dharwad entered the fifth day on Tuesday even as the protesters intensified the agitation by locking several municipal offices in Dharwad.In the protest led by members of the Dharwad Separate Corporation Protest Forum and supported by Dharwad Bar Association and Dharwad Dhwani, the protestors marched to the offices of Hubballi-Dharwad West MLA Arvind Bellad, Mayor Jyoti Patil and corporation commissioner Rudresh Gali located on the municipal corporation premises in Dharwad and raised slogans against the State government and the leaders.
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