The Hindu
PERSISTENT EFFORT: Members of the Bharatiya Janata Party, led by Pralhad Joshi, Dharwad North MP, submitting a memorandum to Chief Minister N. Dharam Singh in Hubli on Monday.
HUBLI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) relented on the show of black flag but succeeded in staging a dharna against Chief Minister N. Dharam Singh here on Monday.
Ever since Pralhad Joshi, party MP from Dharwad North, had announced plans to stage a black flag demonstration against Mr. Dharam Singh, the police had been trying to persuade the BJP leaders to drop up the plan.
Police pleas ignored
Police continued their efforts even as the BJP workers gathered near the entry gate to the airport because the police did not allow anybody wo did not posses passes.
The BJP leaders, including Mr. Joshi, were firm in going ahead with the demonstration while agreeing not to show black flag.
At one stage, the police offered to permit a couple of them to meet the Chief Minister inside but the BJP leaders refused the offer.
Sit-in strike
The police were welcome to arrest them if they so desired.
But the BJP leaders made it clear and said that they would do a sit-in strike near the entrance and said the police were welcome to remove them.
They refused to heed to the advice of the police not to shout slogans against the Chief Minister.
When the Chief Minister's motorcade from the airport building came near the gate, the BJP workers, led by Mr. Joshi, shouted slogans against the "lethargy" of the Government in taking up the issue of giving forestland for the Hubli-Ankola railway line.
Mr. Dharam Singh got down from the car and walked up to the demonstrators and heard Mr. Joshi. Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs H.K. Patil and Minister for Municipal Administration S.R. Morey who is the in-charge minister of the district were present.
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