Daijiworld Media Network – Mangaluru (EP)

Mangaluru, Nov 23: Day and night protests demanding closure of Surathkal toll gate are in progress for nearly a month. As the toll gate has not been closed even after the government notified the change 10 days ago, a joint delegation of secular parties in the district and like-minded organisations visited the deputy commissioner to hold discussions with him in this connection.

The deputy commissioner who listened to the objections and demands of the delegation said that the process will be completed within the next three or four days.

“The final order from the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) office in New Delhi will reach us by then. Please cooperate with us till then,” he said.

Forum president, former minister B Ramanath Rai, CPM district leader Yadava Shetty, Sunil Kumar Bajal, Congress pary’s Shalet Pinto, state farmer’s association’s Oswald Fernandes, Sunny D’ Souza, Dalit Sangharsha Samithi’s JDS leader Vasanth Poojary and M Devadas were present.