Passengers angry over KSRTC – due to Minister’s son marriage
Marriage of Forest Minister C Chennigappa’s son held at Palace Grounds in Bangalore on Thursday, had an impact on the public transport system across the district with hundreds of commuters stranded at various KSRTC bus stations, till evening.
The passengers at Tumkur, Kunigal, Sira and Turuvekere bus stations were stranded due to unavailability of KSRTC buses, as the minister’s family took most of them away to Bangalore.
Regular commuters between Bangalore and Tumkur suffered the brunt to the maximum extent.
Many of them had failed to report to work on schedule. A group of passengers staged a protest at the Tumkur bus terminus demanding immediate bus services to various destinations.
Local CPI(M) leaders N K Subramanya and B Umesh who rushed to the spot, blasted the authorities for causing inconvenience to the poor passengers by cancelling regular services. They demanded that the KSRTC should stop sending buses to the marriages and other functions of VVIPs, at the cost of commuters.
The KSRTC regional traffic controller G G Hegade admitted that some 150 buses were sent to the marriage. But, all have returned to the respective base stations by 3 pm, he added.
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