Karnataka: Activists celebrate closure of Surathkal toll gate | Mangaluru News – Times of India

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MANGALURU: To celebrate the stopping of toll collection at the Surathkal toll gate, at midnight on Wednesday, activists of the Action Committee Against Surathkal toll gate cheered by cutting cakes, distributing sweets, burning crackers, and shouting slogans, at the protest venue at Surathkal.
With the toll plaza closing its collection booths, the action committee ended their indefinite day and night dharna on the 35th day on Thursday. Victory celebrations were held at various places in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts of Karnataka.

celebration of Surathkal toll gate

The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has issued an order to close the Surathkal toll gate and collect the user fee for two tollgates at Hejmadi, from Thursday.

Victory

However, the concessionaire of Hejmadi tollgate has not commenced the combined toll collection on Thursday.
At a victory meet that was held at the protest venue in Surathkal on Thursday, action committee convener Muneer Katipalla said that the people’s representatives of the BJP in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts have not made honest efforts to close the tollgate at Surathkal.
“People have been electing leaders based on the criteria of religion in the coastal districts, and this leads to all issues. Our protest against the tollgate has exposed the true colours of people’s representatives of the ruling party. This victory for our protest against the Surathkal tollgate is the right occasion for people to change their mindset from religion-based politics to issue-based politics,” he said.
Further, on the proposed hike in toll tariff at Hejmadi, Katipalla said that the action committee will unite people from all taluks of undivided Dakshina Kannada, in the next phase of the protest.
“We are not here to gain political mileage. This protest has proved that people from all sections of society are united. We have not taken the law into our hands while holding protests in the past 35 days. The BJP has no moral right to claim the closure of Surathkal tollgate as their achievement. If they claim it, people will give them a fitting reply,” Katipalla said.

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