Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)
Bengaluru, Oct 8: Activists claiming allegiance to organizations working for the welfare of Kannada and Kannadigas resorted to flash protest here on Saturday October 7. The organizations resorted to sudden protest to register their anger at the menace of donations affecting student community. During the protest demonstration, the activists broke window glasses and flower pots of the education minister, Tanveer Sait's residence.
The minister, who was taken aback by the sudden ire that erupted from the crowd at his house at Seven Ministers Quarters on Sankey Road here, filed complaint in High Grounds police station through the police personnel posted at his residence on security duty.
Activists of some organizations including Karnataka Rakshana Vedike resorted to protest all of a sudden without obtaining advance permission. As they could not see anyone near the minister's house except the security personnel, the activists laid siege to the house and attempted to gatecrash into the minister's house. The security staff conveyed information to local police immediately. Before the arrival of the police, the protesters broke some flower pots and window glasses. Personnel of High Grounds police station who rushed to the spot, arrested the activists indulging in vandalism and took them to police station.
The police said that the protesters have been charged with attacking security staff at the minister's residence, obstructing government employees from discharging duties, posing threat, inflicting damage to government property and rioting.
The activists raised slogans against the menace of donations in private schools, demanding reforms in the field of educational system, steps against people running English schools in the name of Kannada schools, and demanding to rein in private schools. As many as 22 activists from various places in the city including Sayyed, Vikram, Akash and Mahesh were taken into custody. The police said that the activists have claimed themselves to be affiliated to Karnataka Rakshana Vedike's Yuva Sene.
Minister, Tanveer Sait, who received memorandum from the activists after the protest, spoke to the media. He said that the government is taking steps to regulate demand for donations being made by private schools. He said that the activists who protested on Saturday had never complained to him nor had they given any representations in the past.
Associated Managements of Primary and Secondary Schools in Karnataka has condemned the vandalism of activists of organizations at the residence of minister, Tanveer Sait.